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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Efficacy | effectiveness; ability to produce results |
| Dexterity | physical skill, cleverness |
| Prolific | productiveness; create in quantity |
| Malicious | spiteful; with evil intent; mean on purpose |
| Inexplicable | can't be explained |
| Conjuration | supernatural accomplishment |
| Placidity | calmness; quietness |
| Anathemas | curses; persons or things detested (hated) |
| Enmity | hostility |
| Inalienable | cannot be taken away or transferred |
| Phantasmagoric | imaginary,dreamlike |
| Abyss | anything too deep for measurement; bottomless gulf |
| Gesticulation | gesturing, usually in an excited manner |
| Labyrinth | entanglement, confusing, maze, complicated |
| Inauspicious | unlucky; ill-omened |