Vocabulary Unit 8 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What means clothes especially fine or formal ones
Attire
What means to be next to or have a common boundary with?
Abut
What means to use or take advantage of?
Avail
What means a group, gang, posse, or coterie that hangs around you?
Crony
What means having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure?
Cryptic
What means tending to be different or developing in a different direction?
Divergent
What means the feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something?
Enmity
What means having or displaying a passionate intensity?
Fervent
What means lean and haggard because of suffering, hunger, or age?
Gaunt
What means to break in, to invade, to intrude upon?
Infiltrate
What means make of no use or value; cancel out?
Nullify
What means able to be seen or noticed?
Perceptible
What means fall, descent, lower?
Plummet
What means to establish, exclaim, or decree?
Proclaim
What means the authority to represent something, especially in voting?
Proxy
What means to continue to be painful, fester?
Rankle
What means a hunter, or a being that lives off dead remains?
Scavenger
What means to supply an ungenerous or inadequate amount of something?
Stint
What means enduring pain and hardships without showing ones feelings or complaining?
Stoical
What means to be tireless, or persistent?
Unflagging
