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H's English 1
English Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| milieu | a person's social environment |
| penultimate | second to last (in a series) |
| stygian | of or relating to the Styx river; gloomy and dark; hellish |
| bucolic | of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic |
| resplendent | attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous |
| perfidious | deceitful and untrustworthy |
| convoluted | (esp. of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow : its convoluted narrative encompasses all manner of digressions. |
| conundrum | a confusing and difficult problem or question : one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts. |
| paroxysm | a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity : a paroxysm of weeping. |