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English Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Words | Definition |
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Balmy | Pleasantly warm |
Tangent | a completely different cine or thought or action |
Melancholy | a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause |
Rueful | expressing sorrow or regret, especially when in a slightly humorous way |
Exasperated | irritate intensely; infuriate |
Self-deprication | modestly about or criticism of oneself |
Retorted | say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typicallyina a shirr manner |
Chapter | 5-8 |
Galling | annoying, humiliating |
Venture | a risky or daring journey or under taking |
Instinct | an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli. |
Faltered | speak in a hesitant or unsteady voice |
Scornful | feeling or expressing contempt or derision |
Elated | make (someone) ecstatically happy |
Receded | (of a quality, feeling, or possibility) gradually diminish |
Chapter | 9-12 |
Vanity | excessive pride in or admiration of one own appearance or achievements |
Indomitable | impossible to subdue or defeat |
Perilous | full or danger and risk |
Luxrious | giving self-inclulgent or sensuous pleasujre |
Decisvely | in a away that shows the ability to make decisions and effectively |
Rigid | not tabletop changed or adapted |
Anquish | severe mental or physical pain or suffring |
Chapter | 13-17 |
Peculiar | strange or odd; unsual |
Exclamation | a sudden cry or remark especially expressing surprise, and anger or pain |
Gestured | a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express and idea or meaning |
Courteous | polite, respectful, or considerate in manner. |
Roust | cause to get up or start moving house |
Flanks | the side of a person's or animal's body between the ribs and the hip |
Teeming | be full of or swarming with |