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Learn key definitions from Vocabulary Unit 4, including ambush, calculate, contribute, dread, employ, extend, frantic, and initial. Enhance your vocabulary with these words and their meanings to improve your language skills.
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Vocabulary Unit 4 Definitions
Ambush • To make a surprise attack from a hidden place
Calculate • To find out by adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing; to figure out by reason or logic
Contribute To give money, effort, or items for a cause; to hand in for publication
Dread • To be afraid; to fear or feel deep worry; uneasiness
Employ • To make use of; to put to work on a job or task for pay
Extend To stretch out, make or last longer; to give or offer
Frantic • Very excited or upset; marked by fast, wild, or nervous action
Initial • Beginning or first; the first letter of a name or word
Routine The regular or fixed way in which a thing is done; an act or skit; normal, predictable, or commonly done
Stun • To have a sudden, upsetting effect on the mind or feelings; to shock or daze; to make unable to feel, react, or think
Sturdy • Firmly or solidly built; determined
Yield To give in or give way; to produce or bring forth