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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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| accelerate | v: to speed up, cause to move faster (ANT: slow down, retard) |
| bystander | n: one who looks on or observes (ANT: active participant) |
| canvass | v: to go through an area to procure votes, sales, or opinions, to discuss |
| casual | adj: happening by chance; showing little concern, informal (ANT: formal, serious) |
| downtrodden | adj: treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed (ANT: uplifted, liberated) |
| entice | v: to attract, tempt (ANT: nauseate, sicken, repel) |
| erode | v: to wear away gradually, to eat away (ANT: nurture, promote) |
| flounder | v: to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way |
| graphic | adj: lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts (ANT: dull, unrealistic) |
| gruesome | adj: horrible, revolting, ghastly (ANT: pleasant, delightful) |
| melancholy | adj: sad, gloomy, unhappy; n: sadness, gloominess (ANT: merry, happy, joy, elation) |
| ordeal | n: a difficult or painful experience, a trial (ANT: pleasure, cinch) |
| parch | v: to make dry and thirsty, to shrivel with heat (ANT: soak, drench, saturate) |
| persist | v: to continue steadily in a course of action, to last, remain (ANT: give up, discontinue) |
| puny | adj: less than normal strength or size, of no importance (ANT: robust, brawny) |
| quibble | v: to evade or belittle a point by raising minor objections; n: a petty objection |
| ratify | v: to give formal approval to, to confirm (ANT: cancel, repeal, annul) |
| regal | adj: royal, fir for a king (ANT: lowly, humble) |
| stifle | v: to smother, to prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off (ANT: nurture, promote, encourage) |
| vital | adj: having life, living, necessary to life, essential (ANT: nonessential, unnecessary) |
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St. Thomas More School |
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