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unit 1 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cresent | some thing with a thin curved shap like a quarter moon |
| awesome | causing wonder of fear |
| injustice | unfairnees |
| presence | the bearing, influence, or air of a person fet by anothee person |
| revelation | some thing made known |
| proprietor | owner |
| picket line | a boun dary established by those who are standing in front of or walking about a place in protest |
| human nature | the basic traits and characteristics |
| insincere | false or dishonest |
| fowl | `one of a number of birds such as chicken and duck used for food |
| modest | ashram living condiding |
| relic | anything from the past |
| restrained | to keep from doing something ; hold back |
| reform | change for the better |
| restrictions | rule or regulation designed to comfine or limit |
| discontent | unhappiness orrestless |
| resovled | to settle; explain, or to sovle |
| detached | to remove from each other |
| presumed | to believe to be true without questions |
| philosopher | a person who studies or specilizes |
| curious | eger to learn, interested in things |
| bewelding | to confuse or puzzle, mixed up |
| interval | a time or space between two things |
| imbedded | to place or set firmly |
| inspierd | to move in action,to stir the mind |
| elaborate | worked out or made great detail |
| elegant | rich and fine quality |
| catastrophic | violant and very sudden |
| strutting | to walk in such manner |
| tremors | a shake or trembling |
| quiverd | to shake slightly, shiver |
| frantically | in a such wild excited manner |
| anxious | nervous, worried, or fearful about |
| horrified | to cause a feeling or great fear and dread |
| muffled | to wrap or cover so as to soften the sound |
| gasping | to draw in air |
| barren | not able to produce |
| remains | things that are left behind |
| circuated | to move arond wildly different places |
| bulk | the largest or main part |
| inscriptions | something that is written, engraved or printed as a lasting record |
| decipher | to figure out a secret code |
| complex | complex hard to understand or do |