Vocabulary Word
Word: balk
Definition: stop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil; stop or get in the way of; frustrate
Definition: stop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil; stop or get in the way of; frustrate
More Vocab Words
::: offensive - attacking; insulting; distasteful; V. offend: violate; hurt the feelings of; N. offense: offending; violating of a moral or social code; crime; attack; Ex. first offense::: statutory - created by statute or legislative action; regulated by statute; Ex. statutory age limit
::: wane - decrease in size or strength (after being full); grow gradually to an end; Ex. The moon waxes and wanes every month; N.
::: sepulcher - tomb; V: place in a sepulcher; ADJ. sepulchral
::: whit - small amount; smallest speck; Ex. not a whit of
::: demean - disgrace; humiliate; debase in dignity; behave
::: existential - pertaining to existence; pertaining to the philosophy of existentialism
::: precocious - advanced in development; N. precocity
::: craven - cowardly
::: isthmus - narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land
