Unit 9: Vocab. Workshop Achieve: Level B (7th)

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bystander
(n.) one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part
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canvass
(v.) to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions; to go over in detail; to discuss
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downtrodden
(adj.) treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed
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erode
(v.) to wear away gradually, eat away
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gruesome
(adj.) horrible, revolting, ghastly
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melancholy
(adj.) sad, gloomy, unhappy; (n.) sadness, gloominess
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ordeal
(n.) a difficult or painful experience, a trial
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persist
(v.) to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
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quibble
(v.) to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; (n.) a petty objection
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vital
(adj.) having life, living; necessary to life, essential; key, crucial
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accelerate(v.) to speed up, cause to move faster; to bring about more quicklycasual(adj.) happening by chance or on an irregular basis; showing little concern; informalentice(v.) to attract, temptflounder(v.) to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective waygraphic(adj.) lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial artsparch(v.) to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heatpuny(adj.) of less than normal strength or size; of no importanceratify(v.) to approve, give formal approval to, confirmregal(adj.) royal, kinglike; fit for a kingstifle(v.) to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off

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