8th Vocab Unit 9

in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course

• specific

• awry

• recluse

suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn

• apt

• prodigy

• mien

a short club used as a weapon; use force or strong arguments to gain some point

• renown

• impunity

• bludgeon

to end resistance, give up, throw in the towel

• capitulate

• endow

• pertinent

to warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk

• fend

• chafe

• predominant

to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of; a narrow passage ; gorge, canyon

• recluse

• fend

• defile

dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come

• dire

• encroach

• prodigy

charming, tending to soften unfriendliness or suspicion

• fend

• disarming

• pertinent

in bad humor, discontented, annoyed

• specific

• prodigy

• disgruntled

to advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass

• encroach

• mien

• renown