Unit 9 Vocab

(adj) suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn

• awry

• apt

• bludgeon

• disgruntled

(adj. adv.) in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course

• fend

• endow

• awry

• chafe

(n) a short club used as a weapon (v) to strike with a heavy club; to use force or strong arguments to gain some point.

• defile

• encroach

• capitulate

• bludgeon

(v) to end resistance, give up, throw in the towel

• capitulate

• chafe

• defile

• dire

(v) to warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk; to stain or press against; (n) a sore or injury caused by rubbing

S: (v) irritate, scrape, abrade

A: (v) soothe, mollify, please, elate

• dire

• chafe

• disarming

• fend

(v., trans.) to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of; (v., intrans) to march in a single line or in columns; (n) a narrow passage; gorge, canyon

• disarming

• disgruntled

• defile

• dire

(adj) dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding immediate action to avoid disaster

S: disastrous, ominous, sinister, urgent

A: favorable, auspicious, beneficial

• defile

• disgruntled

• disarming

• dire

(adj) charming, tending to soften unfriendliness or suspicion

S: endearing, winning

A: alarming, troubling, disquieting

• endow

• disarming

• encroach

• fend

(adj, part) in bad humor, discontented, annoyed

S: displeased, grumpy, surly

A: pleased, satisfied, content

• disgruntled

• encroach

• endow

• awry

(v) to advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass

S: intrude, infringe

• apt

• disarming

• fend

• encroach