Vocabulary Unit

(adj.) puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

(adj.) lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity; (n.) a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks

(v.) to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value

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

(v.) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision

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

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

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

• rankle

• avail

• encroach

• defile

(n.) a person who switches to an opposing side or party

• ravage

• doctrine

• turncoat

• attribute

(adj.) dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come

• dire

• divergent

• penal

• gaunt