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Unit1ELAVocab
Unit 1 ela vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| warily | cautiously |
| usurers | people who lend money at excessive interest rates |
| supple | capable of adapting quickly to new situations; flexible |
| intoxicated | wildly excited |
| gallantries | courteous and flattering words |
| caste | social class based on wealth and rank |
| coquettish | having to do with flirting |
| renounced | rejected; gave up |
| reformation | a great improvement |
| matronly | mature and motherly |
| maneuvered | in a stiff, formally proper way |
| abyss | a deep, seemingly endless hole or pit |
| farcial | absurd; ridiculous |
| foundered | filled with water and sank |
| grievous | severe |
| immoderate | excessive; extreme |
| naive | simple; lacking sophistication |
| odious | hateful; terrible |
| ominous | foreboding; threatening; suggestive of bad things to come |
| proximity | nearness |
| quay | a riverside area where ships may dock |
| quelled | subdued; put to an end |
| quorum | a group or a minimum number of people of people required for some event |
| raucous | unpleasantly loud |
| superlative | excellent; magnificent |