1. Week 4 Vocab

2. OSHA (N.)
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration): a government agency that helps keep workplaces safe and healthy

3. Contaminate (V.)
To make dirty, polluted, or not usable by touching or by adding something to

4. Cannibalism (N.)
This occurs when one animal eats another animal of its own kind

5. Slaughterhouse (N.)
A building or establishment where animals are killed and butchered 

6. Relent (V.)
Give in, as to influence or pressure

7. Adversary (N.)
Someone who offers opposition

8. Jaunty (Adj.)
Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

9. Susceptible (Adj.)
Yielding readily to or capable of

10. Impediment (N.)
Something immaterial that interferes with action or progress

11. Palatable (Adj.)
Acceptable to the taste or mind

12. Demeaning (Adj.)
Causing awareness of your shortcomings

13. Robust (Adj.)
Strong enough to withstand intellectual challenges

14. Neurosis (N.)
A mental illness that makes you behave in an unusual way

15. Obtuse (Adj.)
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

16. Thwart (V.)
Disappointingly unsuccessful