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ELA-Unit Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ferocious | wildly cruel; savage |
| Chant | word repeated in a songsung pattern |
| Loner | a person who prefers to live, work or play alone |
| Persisted | to continue steadily in a course of action; to apply oneself with effort |
| Fixated | having one's attention absored; engrossed |
| Blurt | to say quickly; without thinking |
| Sociopathic | having a mental disorder that causes one to harm others, often violently |
| Preen | to show pride and self satisfaction; to smooth or adorn oneself |
| Inert | not active; motionlessl sluggish |
| Foundered | to fail; to collapse; to sink |
| Ancestral | relating to or descended from ancestors |
| Anguish | great mental suffering or phyiscal pain, to suffer greatly |
| Petitioned | to ask or request formally, a formal written request |
| Annilation | to act or result of destroying completely |
| Eloquent | Characterized by forceful and persuasive expression;movingly expressive |
| Ruse | a trick or action intended to mislead |
| Succinct | concise and clearly stated |
| trek | a difficult journey |
| harangue | a long speach |
| ferocity | fierceness;extreme savagery |
| corral | to capture or round up |
| intensity | strength;energy |
| don | to put on ;dress in |
| torso | the part of the body between the nuck and legs_not including arms. |
| grimiced | a twisting or disortion of the face, to twist or disort the face |
| mainstay | a cheif member or supporter |
| quaint | old fashioned |
| therapy | a treatment for mental or physical disorders |
| engulfed | to flow over;overwelm |
| token | a keepsake;souvenir |
| vogue | stle or fashion |
| devastating | destructive |
| meticously | very carefully; percisely |
| responsive | quick to react or respond to another |
| visa | an offical permission to leave or enter a country |
| ambassador | a country's cheif |
| optimistic | hopefull that the best will happen. |
| conservative | traditional in style and manner |
| qualify | to meet the requirments |
| impact | a collision, a forcible strikw that sets a body in motion; strong force |
| hypothesis | an assumtion used as the basis for an investigation or argument |
| specailization | a focus on a particular activity;study or field |
| opportunist | one who takes advantage of circumstances for self-serving matters |
| sensation | a condition of stong intereset and exitement |
| disection | to cut apart for study or examination |
| regression | to go back to a former and usally worse condition |
| naivete | simple and credulous |
| impair | to diminsh in stength,value, quality or quantity |
| catcall | a call of disapproval |
| absurb | ridicously unreasonable |
| expedite | to speed up the progress of ; facilate |
| infer | to conclude from facts or observation |
| extract | to draw out or pull out with effort |
| implied | to suggest or express indirectly ; hint |
| abriged | to restrct;curtail |
| codify | to arrange systematically |
| depict | to represent by drawing or painting;to decribe or portray in words |
| inherent | existing in someone or something as a basic or perment characteristic |
| converge | to tend to come together at a place or point |
| mandate | an order or command issued by an authority to control or assaign by orders |
| suppliant | one asks earnestly for something |
| avarice | greedy desire for wealth |
| strenous | marked by or requiring great exertion |
| subsequent | fallowing in order or time |
| alms | to give money or good to charity |
| feinted | misleading movement to draw attention away form something |
| covey | a small flock of birds |
| plaintively | sorrowfully |
| steely | to make hard or strong |
| indigent | impoverised;needy |
| enabled | to make able,empower;to make possible or easy |
| precursor | something that comes befor ;forunner; omen |
| prelevent | widespreaded; predominate; generally accepted |
| ensure | to fallow as a consequence; to spring from; as a result |
| recurrent | returning from time to time |
| incongruous | reciprocally disagreeingl not associating harmoniously |
| theoretical | based upon a belief or theory. but not proved or put into practice |
| puport | to mean or seem to mean;to be intended for understanding in a certain way |
| insitution | a fixed costum |
| generate | to produce or create,as heat, power or ideas. |
| corruption | decay,contamintaion, impurity |
| dissesnion | strong dissagreement of opinion |
| socail | pretaining to human life or life in a governed community |
| platform | a flat floor raised above the ground, a political party's declaration of policy, the outline and details of a set of priniciples establsihing a specific aim or line of action |
| interdepence | the state in which two things. people, or countires are dependent on each other |
| digression | to turn from a topic in speech or writingl deviate |
| chronicles | a record of events in the oreder of their ocurrence ; a record |
| conversly | the opposite |
| contemporaies | happening at the same timel having the same age; a person living at the same time as another |
| chronological | in the order of occurence |
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