Vocab Unit 9

Synonyms: irritate, scrape, abrade

Antonyms: hold out, persist

A person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world.

Related to the matter at hand, to the point

Antonyms: cleanse, purify

My beautiful Helen shall not be transformed into a _____ if I can help it.

Antonyms: alarming, troubling, disquieting

Dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding immediate action

Antonyms: pleased, satisfied, content

When I saw his downcast face and gloomy ____, I knew he hadn’t gotten the promotion.

Antonyms: straight, symmetrical

Freedom from punishment

This frame of the past versus the future has been their primary weapon with which his opponent.

Synonym: disciplinary

Synonyms: stave off, cope

Antonyms: secondary, minor, subsidiary, rare

Synonyms: intrude, infringe

Synonyms: reputation, celebrity, prestige

Synonyms: appropriate, fit, liable

Here was enough to ____ an army, if some means could be devised to permit its use.