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vocab lesson 11
lesson ll
| Vocab words | Vocab definitions |
|---|---|
| Adroit | skillful |
| Archaic | old, out of use |
| Arrogant | vain, insolently proud |
| Ascendancy | growing power |
| Assuage | to make less painful |
| Auspicious | favorable |
| Conciliate | to reconcile |
| Disparity | unequal |
| Dormant | unactive |
| Exorcise | to cast away evil |
| Exstraneous | not essential |
| Impecunious | without money |
| Interminable | seeming to have no end |
| Intractable | stubborn, difficult to manage |
| Irascible | easily angered |
| Irresolute | indecisive |
| Predilection | preference |
| Promontory | land/rock projecting out of water |
| Prosiac | commonplace, uninspired |
| Pugnacious | looking for a fight |
| Symmetry | balanced proportions |
| Synthesis | combining parts into a whole |
| Vituperate | harsh, mean remarks |
| Zenith | high point of something |
| Prescience | knowledge of events before they happen |