Monday, December 5, 2011

Word Pictures & Definitions

Contort: when you have a lot of flexibility
 
































Distort: to twist of deform something




























Retort: to reply in an educated way
























Subvert: to overthrow




























Subservient: the state of belonging to another rank 


























Tortuous: with a lot of twists; twisted 























Adversity: fortunate


































Avert: to turn away or prevent something 
























Introvert: a shy person
























Perverse: to know what's going to happen





















Prose: ordinary form of written language


































Vertigo: to get dizzy





























Extort: to take something illegally 
























Torque: something that produces rotation
























Vertebrae: bones that make up the spinal column 




























Vortex: a whirlpool in the water 
























Tort: an act that produces an injury to another person

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