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English 7-1 vocab
25 hardest words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |