chapter 8
attire
(n.) clothes, apparel, garb; (v.) to dress
stint
a period of time spent doing something to restrict or limit an amount or allowance to be frugal
abut
to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border; to neighbor
unflagging
(adj.) Tireless, continuing with vigor; Showing sustained enthusiasm
perceptible
(adj.) capable of being grasped by the senses or mind
gaunt
(adj.) extremely thin and bony, bleak, bare, barren
enmity
(n.) Absolute hatred; Malice or ill-will
avail
(n.) Use, benefit, or advantage; (v.) To be of use, value or advantage, to help
crony
(n.) a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy
proclaim
(v.) To declare publicly, insistently, proudly or defiantly either in speech or in writing
infilrate
(v.) to move into secretly and gradually, esp. with hostile intent; to penetrate
plummet
(v.) to plunge straight down; (n.) a weight fastened to a line
proxy
a person who is given the authority to act or stand in for another
scavenger
a person who searches through and collect items from discarded meterials.
cryptic
difficult to understand : having or seeming to have a hidden meaning; secret mysterious
fervent
having or showing great intensity of feeling; passionate
stoical
semming unaffected by pleasure or pain unemotional; impassive
nullify
to make useless; to invalidate; to cancel
rankle
to produce irritation to bitter resentment to irritate
divergent
(adj.) Approaching different directions; Moving apart