unit 8 vocab

(v) to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up

• Abut

• Crony

• Gaunt

• Rankle

(n.) clothes, apparel, garb; (v.) to dress, adorn, or bedeck

• Attire

• Abut

• Crony

• Rankle

(n.) a very close friend, chum, buddy

• Crony

• Attire

• Divergent

• Nullify

(adj.) going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant

• Divergent

• Crony

• Gaunt

• Abut

(adj.) thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren

• Gaunt

• Divergent

• Nullify

• Plummet

(v.) to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

• Nullify

• Gaunt

• Plummet

• Abet

(v.) to plunge straight down; (n.) a weight fastened to a line

• Plummet

• Nullify

• Rankle

• Attire

(v.) to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness (with the suggestion that the pain grows worse with time)

• Rankle

• Abet

• Plummet

• Crony

(n.) a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies

• Scavenger

• Rankle

• Stoical

• Avail

(adj.) self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain

• Stoical

• Scavenger

• Avail

• Proxy