- auxiliary: giving assitance or support, a helper, aid
- candid: frank, sincere, impartial, unposed
- cubicle: a small room or compartment
- drudgery: work that is hard and tiresome
- envoy: a representative or messenger
- escalate: to elevate, to increase in intensity
- expedient: a means to an end, advantageous, useful
- feign: to pretend
- flair: a natural quality, talent or skill, a distinctive style
- grievous: causing sorrow or pain, serious
- heterogeneous: composed of different kinds, diverse
- horde: a vast number
- impel: to force, drive forward
- incredulous: disbelieving, skeptical
- inscribe: to write or engrave, to enter a name on a list
- monologue: a speech by one actor, a long talk by one person
- prognosis: a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or situation
- rasping: with a harsh, grating sound, a harsh sound
- repugnant: offensive, disagreeable, distasteful
- scuttle: to sink a ship by cutting holes in it, to get ride of something in a decisive way, to run hastily, scurry, a pail
Unit 9