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Vocab chp 8-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| uncontrolled extreme emotion | hysterical |
| tie or hold the legs or arms of someone | pinion |
| the very early stages in the development of something | primitave |
| gloomy and solem | somber |
| giving greater knowledge or understanding | enlightened |
| To utterly destroy or defeat | Annihilate |
| Giving impression that something bad is going to happen | Ominous |
| To get out; to originate from; to be produced by | Emanate |
| The tendency to arrive pleasure from inflicting pain | Sadist |
| To the depart from the usual or accepted standard | Deviate |
| allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen; having thoughts, feelings, or motives that are easily perceived | transparent |
| unexpectedly experience or be faced with | encountering |
| to make a series of low, feeble sounds expressive of fear, pain, or discontent | whimpering |
| giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen | sinister |
| relating to or denoting beings supposedly from other worlds; extraterrestrial | alien |
| impossible to stop or prevent | inexorable |
| impossible to pass through or enter | impenetrable |
| clear and definite; real | tangible |
| the complete loss or absence of hope | despair |
| the quality of having unlimited or very great power | omnipotent |
| Hatred | Loathing |
| Unable to be noticed with the five senses | Imperceptible |
| Impression; dent | Indentation |
| Destructive | Corrosive |
| Taken in; eaten up | Devoured |
| Inside-out | Inverted |
| Soothe; relieve | Assuage |
| Little and weak | Puny |
| Unreliable; subject to failure | Fallible |
| Break apart; crumble | Disintegration |
| In low spirits because of a loss of hope or courage | Despondent |
| A person's knowledge or experience of something; a person one knows slightly | Acquaintance |
| Put someone or something in a position of danger or loss | Jeopardize |
| Not able to be seen through; not transparent | Opaque |
| Inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable | Perplexity |
| Having a sharply strong taste or smell | Pungent |
| Act against something in order to reduce its force or neutralize it | Counteract |
| A possibility | Alternative |
| A slender limb of an animal usually around the mouth area | Tentacle |
| A feeling of fear or agitation that something may happen | Trepidation |
| Frightfully | Appallingly |
| Hard to overcome | Formidably |
| To win, dominate | Prevail |
| In union with | League |
| Sink in | Permeating |
| Deadly | Fatal |
| Pure; uncorrupted | Unadulterated |
| Song like poem | Sonnet |
| Remains | Vestige |
| Confuse | Confound |