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.

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vocabulary

Perennial:Adjective
To last/lasting for a long period of time
syn. everlasting
ant.bivennial
Persevere:Verb
To stay focused no matter what comes upon your way.
syn. persist
ant. give-up
Permeate: Verb
To go into completely/penetrate something
syn. diffuse
ant. To go out
Percussion: Verb
To make noise using certain instruments
syn. drums
ant. wind instruments
Dilatory: Adjective
To make something be delayed or slower
syn. pospone
ant. quickly/ pressure
Contend:Verb
To deal with something dangerous or danger or begin soething to win.
syn. battle/fight
ant. agree
Infer: Verb
To make an incident because of events that have happend
syn. reason/guess
ant. to know
Defer:Verb
To delay something for later on
syn. hold over
ant. to rush
Elation:Verb
A state or feeling in which one is happy/pride.
syn. high spirits
ant. depression
Intent:Noun
To do something on purpose with intention
syn. concentrated
ant.absorbed
Challenge Words
Perturb:
To be annoying or disturb some one's privacy
syn. deviate
ant. pleasant
Portend: Verb
To know o predict in advance
syn. foreshadow
ant. to not predict in advance
Superlative: noun
something of high or very high quality.
syn. greatest
ant. worst/ bad quality
Collate:Verb
To arrange something chronologically or in order
syn. order
ant. unorganized out of order
Detente: Verb
a relife of tension, no more fighting
syn. Relax after fight
ant. uproar and chaos
Perpetuity: noun
a state in which something is endless
syn. everlasting
ant. death, something is over