Vocabulary Unit 5 Vocabulary Unit 5 begins with "amenable" and ends with "veer." Tools A B amenable agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant, willing to give in to the wishes of another artisan a worker skilled in a craft astute quick in discernment; shrewd, clever, keen criterion a standard or rule by which something is judged defame to libel or slander; to take away a good name disperse to scatter in various directions; distribute widely dissolution the breaking up into parts; termination of a legal contract draconian hard, severe, cruel elapse to pass or go by (said of time) fetish an object of unreasonable obsessive reverence or attention forage to search or hunt for food and provision gird to encircle as with a belt; to prepare as for action guise appearance, semblance karma fate, destiny; good or bad vibrations from someone lesion a wound, a sore, especially one created by a disease misnomer an incorrect or inappropriate name precarious unsafe, unsteady, unstable resurgent rising after defeat veer to change in direction curvilinear formed, bound, or characterized by curved lines