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Vocab list 1
Long Walk Vocab
| 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 stealth; 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 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 petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one's enemies. |
| grandiose | affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words; more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown: a grandiose scheme. |