Vocabulary Workshop Blue Unit 8

(n.) a very close friend, chum, buddy

• enmity

• crony

• rankle

• fervent

(adj.) puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

• perceptible

• fervent

• cryptic

• divergent

(adj.) going in different directions

• cryptic

• stoical

• divergent

• fervent

(n.) hatred, ill-will

• crony

• plummet

• rankle

• enmity

(adj.) very earnest, emotional, passionate

• perceptible

• fervent

• cryptic

• divergent

(adj.) thin and bony, starved looking

• gaunt

• cryptic

• fervent

• perceptible

(v.) to make of no value or consequence

• plummet

• nullify

• rankle

• proclaim

(adj.) capable of being grasped by the senses

• perceptible

• gaunt

• fervent

• cryptic

(v.) to plunge straight down

• rankle

• nullify

• plummet

• stoical

(v.) to declare publicly or officially

• proclaim

• nullify

• stoical

• gaunt