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English 7-1 vocab
25 hardest words
Term | Definition |
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auspicious | luck or success |
facade | front |
resounding | impressively loud or booming....emphatic, unequivocal |
commotion | a loud raucous, or cacophony, chaos |
prophetic | far seeing |
unabated | being at full strength or force |
methodical | logical, analytic, efficient, following structure or form |
proponent | someone who is "for" something |
adulation | excessive admiration or praise |
penchant | a desire, |
console | to soothe or make feel better |
junket | antonym of pilgrimage |
pensive | reflecting deep or profound thought |
mediate | to bring together, to help make conflicting people or groups come to an agreement (to bring to the middle) |
defiant | indignant, rebellious |
punctilious | rule following |
revelation | a newly discovered notion or idea |
incessant | nonstop, continuing without pause or interruption |
permeate | throughout, soaked penetrate |
prophetic | far seeing, predictive, describing someone who speaks of the future confidently |
ominous | threatening, foreboding |
indigenous | native to an area |
errant | straying outside the proper path or bounds .... moving about aimlessly or irregularly |
decorum | an orderly, manner-filled presence (politeness) |
rogue | a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel... a mischievous person |