Honors Vocab Unit 8

To join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up

• Abut

• Opposite
• Separate
• Distant

Clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn or bedeck

• Furniture
• Food
• Attire
• Technology

A very close friend, chum, buddy

• Crony

• Acquaintance
• Comrade
• Mate

going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant

• convergent
• divergent
• similar
• traditional

Thin and bony, starve looking; bare, barren

• gaunt

• abut

• robust
• crony

To make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

• nullify
• amplify
• validate
• justify

To plunge straight down; a weight fastened to a line

• Plummet

• Drop
• Anchor
• Dive

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

• fester
• alleviate
• rankle

• soothe

A person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies

• scavenger
• garbage man
• hoarder
• vulture

self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain

• stoical

• reactive
• emotional
• sensitive