Unit 8 Vocabulary A+

try hard to do or achieve something

• endeavor

• modify

• recur

• apprehend

intensify, increase, or further improve the quality of

• luminous

• enhance

• ardent

• instill

look after and provide for oneself, without any help from others

• fend

• plausible

• ardent

• enhance

easily persuaded to believe something

• gullible

• ardent

• plausible

• humane

having or showing compassion

• humane

• endeavor

• sporadic

• enhance

gradually but firmly establish an idea in a person's mind

• instill

• transition

• recur

• modify

full of light; bright or shining; especially in the dark

• luminous

• ardent

• gullible

• bonanza

make partial or minor changes to something in order to improve it

• modify

• transition

• enhance

• endeavor

seeming reasonable or probable

• plausible

• ardent

• humane

• luminous

occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

• recur

• apprehend

• fend

• instill