1. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Vocabulary Set 5
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

2. loathsome I find the taste of peas and lazy people loathsome.
The criminal was sentenced to life in prison for his loathsome crimes.

3. definition Causing hatred or disgust POS: adjective
Synonyms: horrible, gross, hideous

4. enigma
What role Bobby had in the store fire remains an enigma to this day.
Many men find women to be a complete enigma.
The enigma of her identity continued to distract him throughout the day.

5. definition
Person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand
POS: Noun
Synonyms: puzzle, riddle, problem

6. succumbs
After being lost in the desert for days, Ted could not help but succumb to the heat, and he collapsed.
She is always trying to lose weight, but she always succumbs to chocolate ice cream.

7. definition Fail to resist (from pressure) POS: verb
Synonyms: yield, cave, surrender

8. churning
The restless student got in trouble because he would not stop churning in his chair.
He could feel his supper churning in his stomach and felt very sick.

9. definition
Turning; agitate
POS: verb
Synonyms: stir, toss, beat

10. subsequent For many student, lunch is subsequent to fourth hour.
Subsequent to her arrest, she was taken to jail and assigned a court date.
Subsequent testing proved their was no cancer in the man’s lungs.

11. definition Coming after something in time POS: adjective
Synonyms: following, succeeding, next