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Chapter 7 and 8
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indigenous | Describes people or things that are native to a region. |
| interloper | Trading company attempting business in an area where another company had a monolopy. |
| extraneous | irrelevant |
| inherent | stuck to the nature of thing |
| germane | relevant or suitable or closely connected |
| pariah | refers to a social outcast, someone not accepted in his or her society. |
| endemic | native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area. |
| intrinsic | rough synonym for "inherent" |
| ostracize | expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively. |
| tangential | describing something "slightly touching" or barely connected" |
| Ominous | a foreshadowing of the future, always describes the threatening, the menacing. |
| portentous | Describes something carrying a sign, a portent, of the threats of the future. |
| inauspicious | forecasts negatively. |
| imminent | Describes something about to occur |
| impending | it can refer to something threatening or not. |
| minatory | always mean "threatening" |
| presage | This verb refers to a forewarning, an ominous feeling, a prediction. |
| bode and forebode | verb referring to an omen and the two syllable repeats or intensifies that presentiment. |
| propitiate | describes actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome. |
| harbinger | noun refers to a forerunner, an early warning or messenger of what's to come. |
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