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The Long Walk Vocab
Stack #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Auspicious | promising success; propitious, opportune, favorable: an auspicious occasion. |
| Derelict | a person abandoned by society, esp. a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum |
| Temerity | reckless boldness; rashness |
| surreptitious | obtained, done, made, etc, by stelth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance |
| ingenuity | the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity |
| formidable | causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent |
| noxious | harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes. |
| compunction | a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse |
| recalcitrant | resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant |
| magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from pretty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one's enemies |
| grandiose | affectedly grand or important; popmous: grandiose words; more complicated or elaborate than necessary overblown: a grandiose scheme |