Lesson 9 Grade 7

(n) one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part

• bystander

• melancholy

• stifle

• entice

(adj) treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed

• downtrodden

• gruesome

• vital

• melancholy

to attract, tempt

• entice

• parch

• flounder

• persist

(v) to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• flounder

• bystander

• parch

• stifle

(adj) horrible, revolting, ghastly

• gruesome

• melancholy

• downtrodden

• vital

(v) to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat

• parch

• persist

• entice

• flounder

(adj) sad, gloomy, unhappy; (n) sadness, gloominess

• melancholy

• bystander

• vital

• downtrodden

(v) to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain

• persist

• stifle

• parch

• flounder

(v) to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off

• stifle

• parch

• entice

• flounder

(adj) having life, living; necessary to life, essential, key, crucial

• vital

• downtrodden

• gruesome

• melancholy