Vocabulary Words Lesson 2. (Pictures and Definitions)

1.Subvert: to ruin something.

2. Subservient: to be useful

3.contort: to bend or twist something

4. distort: to change the meaning of something into something else, the way people see it

5. retort: to return

6. tortuous: full of twists, bends, and not direct.

7. adversity: misfortune

8. avert: turn something away, aside.

9. introvert: a person who is shy and or timid

10. perverse: wicked or corrupt

11.prose: speaking normally


Challenge words

1. Vortex:A whirling mass

2. subjective:Putting too much empahisis in something you’ve done, object.

3. subconscious: Not fully conscious

4. vertebra: The bones that make the spinal bone.

5. vertigo: a feel of spining and naseua

6.subside: to sink into a lower level.