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Understanding and Confronting Adversaries: A Guide to Dealing with Enemies and Challenges

Explore strategies to address opponents and enemies, avoid alienating others, coercive tactics, and ways to exhilarate spirits. Discover how to navigate through inclement situations, liquidate debts, muse on matters, and perpetuate positive precedents. Find redress for wrongs and enjoy a suave sojourn.

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Understanding and Confronting Adversaries: A Guide to Dealing with Enemies and Challenges

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  1. Academic English 10 Unit 3 Vocabulary

  2. (n) enemy, opponent • You are “versus” this person adversary

  3. (v) to turn away, make hostile • Like you’re making an “alien” out of them alienate

  4. (n) a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick or skill artifice

  5. (v) force, compel • Sounds like force coerce

  6. (adj) cowardly • (n) a coward • Like a “raven” that can’t stand up to bigger animals? craven

  7. Pages 39-40 # 1, 2, 3, 16, 18

  8. culinary • (adj) related to cooking or the kitchen

  9. (n) death, especially of a powerful person or idea demise

  10. (v) to cheer up or give spirit to exhilarate

  11. (adj) plowed but not seeded, inactive fallow

  12. (v) disturb, worry, make trouble for • Like bullying harass

  13. Completing the Sentence: p. 39-40 #5, 10, 13, 14, 19

  14. (adj) stormy, harsh, severe (often describes weather) inclement

  15. (v.) to pay a debt or settle an account – “liquidation sales” help a business pay its debts. (v.) to eliminate Liquidate

  16. (v) to think about or ponder dreamily • “use” your head muse

  17. (adj) so unimportant that it can be ignored • of negative importance negligible

  18. perpetuate • (v) to make permanent • But often in a bad way

  19. Completing the Sentence: p. 39-40 #6, 7, 11, 15, 17

  20. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation • Makes a real “dent” in the way we think about that thing precedent

  21. (adj) aiming at punishment • “pun” punitive

  22. (v) to set right • (n) relief from wrong • Giving “rest” to whatever was causing pain • Usually emotional wrong/pain not physical redress

  23. sojourn • (n) temporary stay • (v) to stay for a time

  24. (adj) refined, suave • Like Keith Urban? urbane

  25. Completing the Sentence: p. 39-40 #4, 8, 9, 12, 20

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