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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Efficacy | effectiveness; ability to produce results |
Dexterity | physical skill, cleverness |
Prolific | productiveness; create in quantity |
Malicious | spiteful; with evil intent; mean on purpose |
Inexplicable | can't be explained |
Conjuration | supernatural accomplishment |
Placidity | calmness; quietness |
Anathemas | curses; persons or things detested (hated) |
Enmity | hostility |
Inalienable | cannot be taken away or transferred |
Phantasmagoric | imaginary,dreamlike |
Abyss | anything too deep for measurement; bottomless gulf |
Gesticulation | gesturing, usually in an excited manner |
Labyrinth | entanglement, confusing, maze, complicated |
Inauspicious | unlucky; ill-omened |