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25 Word List
25 new vocab words
Term | Definition |
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Auspicious | Promising, favorable, giving a sign of future success |
Resounding | Impressively loud or booming....emphatic, unequivocal |
Commotion | A loud raucous, or cacophony, chaos |
Unbated | Being at full strength or force |
Methodical | Logical, analytic, efficient, following structure or form |
Adulation | Obsequious flattery; excessive admiration or praise |
Penchant | A desire, a strong interest |
Junket | A trip, journey: such as a trip made by an official at public expense |
Pensive | Reflecting deep or profound thought |
Defiant | Angry, stubborn, aggressively resisting |
Punctillious | Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior |
Incessant | Nonstop, continuing without pause or interruption |
Prophetic | Far seeing, predictive, describing someone who speaks of the future confidently |
Indigenous | Native to an area |
Decorum | An orderly, manner-filled presence |
Facade | The face of a building, especially the principal front that looks onto a street or open space, front, facean outward appearance that is maintained to conceal a less pleasant or creditable reality |
Prophetic | Far seeing, predictive, describing someone who speaks of the future confidently |
Proponent | Someone who is "for" or fighting FOR a cause |
Console | To soothe or make feel better |
Mediate | To bring together, to help make conflicting people or groups come to an agreement |
Revelation | A revealing, a newly discovered notion or idea |
Permeate | Throughout, soaked penetrate |
Ominous | Threatening, foreboding |
Errant | Straying outside the proper path or bounds (an errant calf).... moving about aimlessly or irregularly |
Rogue | A dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel... a mischievous person |