Unit 13 Definitions

to stick to, remain attached; to be devoted or loyal

• fluent

• prowl

• disquieting

• adhere

to declare to be true; to confirm

• adhere

• affirm

• misapprehension

• empower

an extremely wicked, brutal, or cruel act

• atrocity

• mangle

• cope

• optimist

to struggle successfully against, deal with satisfactorily; a long religious cloak; a canopy

• fluent

• cope

• prowl

• deter

to discourage, scare off

• affirm

• empower

• deter

• lag

causing uneasiness or worry

• recitation

• deter

• surge

• disquieting

to give power or authority to; to enable; to permit

• empower

• deter

• stupefy

• misapprehension

speaking or writing easily and smoothly

• adhere

• trait

• fluent

• prowl

to move slowly or fall behind; a falling behind; the amount by which someone or something is behind

• lag

• trait

• stupefy

• recitation

to injure very seriously by cutting, tearing, crushing, etc.

• sulky

• adhere

• supplement

• mangle