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Wanamaker Vocab
English words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| identity | one's own unique quality; makes a person |
| lodge | stuck |
| reel | to lurch forward |
| putrid | the smell of something decaying |
| assailed | to hurt someone physically or verbally |
| accessible | approachable |
| revelry | to have fun; a party |
| pinnacle | the top of something |
| prodigious | very large |
| travesty | shocking or upsetting |
| tautology | needless repetition of words or ideas |
| ignorant | to not know better because you haven't been taught |
| bigotry | to dislike someone for color, race, beliefs |
| self-negate | to contradict yourself |
| archaic | out of date |
| retrograde | to move back in time |
| xenophobic | irrational fear of someone different |
| plaintive | melancholy |
| demographic | the study of people |
| marred | scarred |
| lament | mourn |
| prodigy | gifted |
| ream | a large amount |
| reproach | to chastise |
| reverie | to daydream |
| ascetic | stern in appearance |
| beleaguered | military surrounds an area |
| enveloped | to cover |
| fanatic | to be obssessed |
| minister | head of a church |
| appalling | causing dismay or horror |
| clamor | loud noise |
| muster | to gather |
| tweed | rough cloth |
| shabby | worn out |
| brazen | bold |
| exiles | people kicked out from homeland |
| beacon | metaphorically means hope/guide |
| yearning | to want badly |
| beguiling | being charming in order to deceive |
| pallid | pale |
| quaff | drink deeply |
| placid | calm |
| surcease | relief |
| mien | a person's look or manner |
| obeisance | sign of respect |
| wretched | poor condition |
| refuse | garbage |
| teeming | abounding in |
| tempest | storm |
| spasmodically | jerky movements |
| ruse | trick |
| betrayal | to go behind one's back |
| devastate | cause destruction |
| discordant | not in harmony |
| fiasco | a failure |
| indignity | humilated |
| intrigued | a secret plot |
| adherence | stand by your convictions/beliefs |
| aptitude | capability |
| gravitate | to be pulled toward |
| serene | placid |
| palpable | tangible |
| chastise | reproach |
| transgression | infraction |
| nurture | to care for |
| infraction | transgression |