1. Girls’ Section Al Oruba International Schools English Department grade 6 vocabulary unit 2

2. Meanings and Word Pictures Unit 2 vocabulary

3. adverse: unfavorable, working against

4. arid: extremely dry

5. assailant: a person who attacks violently

6. billow: a large wave

7. confront: to meet face – to - face

8. Constrain: to force, to hold back

9. Contemporary: belonging to the same period of time as oneself

10. Depict: to portray, to present or show in the form of a picture

11. disinterested: able to judge a situation fairly

12. encompass: to encircle, to include

13. Groundless: without any good reason or cause

14. Hypocrite: a two – faced person

15. Incomprehensible: impossible to understand

16. Manipulate: to handle or use skillfully

17. Maximum: the greatest possible amount

18. Mimic: a person who does imitations

19. Ruffle: to wrinkle, to annoy, Ruffle: to wrinkle, to annoy, a gathered strip of material to trim edges

20. Serene: peaceful, calm

21. sheepish: embarrassed

22. stamina: the strength needed to keep doing something