Vocabulary Drill

Chapter Nine

antisocial · unsociable

appendage · limb

assent · agreement

buoyed · uplifted

clandestine · secretive

coherent · understandable

combative · warlike

condemnation · disapproval

condones · supports

contemplate · think about

contrite · remorseful

conundrum · mystery

converged · came together

corrective · counteractive

counteract · neutralize

crude · unsophicticated

daunting · intimidating

decisive · determined

degradation · demotion

delegating · assigning

demolished · destroyed

demonizing · label as evil

disregard · disrepect

dissipated · scattered

downcast · depressed

drubbing · beating

embittered · feeling bitter

emphatically · forcefully

entangled · entwined

erosion · breakdown

errant · stray

erratically · unsteadily

exigent · tricky

expunge · delete

extensive · broad

extricated · freed

fidelity · loyalty

firebrand · troublemaker

flabbergasted · shocked

fraught · filled

hardy · tough

haughty · arrogant

hazardous · dangerous

hindrance · obstacle

indefatigable · untiring

induced · caused

insurgents · dissenters

laceration · cut

morass · swamp

obliterated · destroyed

odious · hateful

ostracism · alienation

oxymoron · self-contradiction

permeated · soaked

pertinacious · stubborn

plausible · believable

querulous · complaining

rapt · captivated

reconcile · make one’s peace

relishing · thoroughly enjoying

rift · split

sensibilities · feelings

sluiced · flowed