Vocabulary Lesson 2 Dec. 2011

Vocabulary Lesson 2 Dec. 2011

·      Subvert: upset, overthrow, ruin

·      Subservient: excessively willing to yield, submissive.

·      Contort: to twist or bend out of shape

·      Distort: change/ make false

·      Retort: 1. Reply quickly, sharply, reply in accusation 2. Quick, witty

·      Tortious: 1. Twists and turns 2. Deceitfully, tricky

·      Adversity: hardship, misfortune

·      Avert: 1. Turn away 2. Prevent

·      Introvert: thoughts are interested are directed inward.

·      Perverse: stubbornly doing something rather than with reason

·      Prose: speech or writing without rhyme or meter

CHALLENGE WORDS:

·      Subjective: influenced by someone taste, opinion, feelings

·      Subside: become less violent (BAJALE)

·      Tort: wrong act, illegal

·      Truss: bind, bundle

·      Vertigo: dizziness, from heights

·      Vortex: whirling liquid air mass