| Term | Definition |
|---|
| accelerate | to speed up cause to move faster to bring about more quickly |
| bystander | one who looks on or observes : a person present but not taking part |
| canvass | to go through an area in order to procure votes sales or opinions to go over in detail to discuss |
| casual | happening by chance or on a irregular basis: showing little concern: informal |
| downtrodden | treated unfairly or cruelly opressed |
| entice | to attract, tempt |
| erode | to wear away gradually, eat away |
| flounder | to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way |
| graphic | life lik vivid: relating to the pictorial arts |
| gruesome | horrible, revolting, ghastly |
| melancholy | sad gloomy, unhappy sadness gloominess |
| ordeal | a difficult or painful experience, a trial |
| parch | to make dry or thirsty to shrivel with heat |
| persist | to continue steadily in a course of action refuse to stop or be change ; to last or remain |
| puny | of less than normal strength or size of no importance |
| quibble | to evade or belittle a point by twistin words or raising minor objections: a minor objection |
| ratify | to approve give formal approval to confirm |
| regal | royal or kinglike fit for a king |
| stifle | to smother, prevent from breathing to hold back or choke off |
| vital | having life, livin necessary to life, essential key crucial |
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