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TFA words 31-50
Things fall apart vocab
Question | Answer |
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To thrive, to grow well | Flourish |
A person who is elusive or hard to find, wandering | Fugitive |
Characterized by sever suffering or sorrow, serious or grave | Grievous |
Things that precede and forecast | Harbingers |
Worship of idols, excessive devotion | Idolatry |
Extremely overbearing | Imperious |
Not providing for the future, not thrifty | Improvident |
Disrespectful, characterized by improper bold behavior | Impudent |
Beginning to come into being, the early stage of something | Incipient |
To start a fire, to stir up | Kindle |
Abundant in growth, very fertile | Luxuriant |
Ill will or evil intentions | Malevolence |
Motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm | Malicious |
Gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter | Mirth |
Threatening | Ominous |
Opposed to war or use of force | Pacifist |
To prolong the existence of something | Perpetuate |
Mournful and expressing sorrow | Plaintive |
Feathers of a bird | Plumage |
Piercing, incisive, and keen | Poignant |