Chaper9

1.woe: a feeling of great pain or sadness

2.avert: to turn (your eyes, gaze, etc.) away or aside

3.appraise: to say how much something is worth after you have carefully examined it : to give an official opinion about the value of (something)

4.drawl: to speak slowly with vowel sounds that are longer than usual

5.vapid: not lively or interesting : dull or boring

6.soppy: soaked through with water : very wet: foolish or silly

7.description: type or kind

8.servile: very obedient and trying too hard to please someone

9.giddy: feeling or showing great happiness and joy

10.gloat: to show in an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success or another person's failure

11.contaminate: to make (something) dangerous, dirty, or impure by adding something harmful or undesirable to it

12.retch: to vomit or feel as if you are about to vomit

13.dither: to delay taking action because you are not sure about what to do

14.curtsy: a formal way of greeting an important person (such as a king or queen) in which a woman shows respect by placing one foot slightly behind the other and bending her knees

15.prat: a stupid or foolish person

16.hitch: to attach, fasten, or connect (something) with a hook, knot, etc.

17.dismal: showing or causing unhappiness or sad feelings : not warm, cheerful, etc.

18.rhapsodize: to praise or describe something or someone with a lot of enthusiasm and emotion

19.segregate: to separate groups of people because of their particular race, religion, etc.

20.stem: to make headway against (as an adverse tide, current, or wind)

21.coo: to talk in a soft, quiet, and loving way

22.scuttle: scurry: to move quickly and with short steps

23.estrange: to cause someone to be no longer friendly or close to another person or group

24.bleak: not warm, friendly, cheerful, etc.

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