adapt - to adjust or change to suit conditions, attest - to bear witness, affirm to be true or geniune, dovetail - to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole; a carpentry figure assembling a dove's tail, enormity - the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity, falter - to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitantly; to lose drive, weaken, decline, foreboding - a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; marked by fear, forlorn - totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless, haughty - chillingly proud and scornful, impediment - a physical defect; obstacle, imperative - necessary, urgent; a form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required, loiter - to linger in an aimless way, hang around, malinger - to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job, pithy - short but full of meaning, plunder - to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully, simper - to smile or speak in a silly, forced way, steadfast - firmly fixed, constant, not moving or changing, vaunted - much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way, vilify - to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously, waif - a person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal, wry - twisted, turned to one side; cleverly humorous,

Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 13 Definitions

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