1. Vocabulary Week 9

2. bludgeon
A short club used as a weapon/ to strike with a heavy club; to use force or strong arguments

3. chafe
To wear sore by rubbing; to annoy, to irk

4. disgruntled
In bad humor (mood), discontented, annoyed

5. defile
To make unclean or dirty; to destroy the purity of; to march in a single line/ a narrow passage

6. encroach
To advance upon the usual or proper limits

7. apt
Suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn

8. capitulate
To end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel

9. disarming
Charming; tending to get rid of unfriendliness and suspicion

10. awry
In a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for cause

11. dire
Dreadful; causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding action to avoid disaster

12. impunity
Freedom from punishment

13. predominant
The greatest in strength or power; most common

14. fend
To ward off, resist, to get along, to manage

15. penal
Having to do with punishment

16. endow
To furnish, equip, provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality

17. renown
Fame, glory

18. mien
Air, manner appearance; expression

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A person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world

20. pertinent
Related to the matter at hand; to the point

21. prodigy
Something wonderful or marvelous; something abnormal; an unusual feat; a child or young person with extraordinary ability