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Language 3+4 vocab
Language lesson 3 and 4 workbook vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggressive | characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing |
| ecology | the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms. |
| ferocious | savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating; extreme or intense |
| inevitable | unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary;sure to occur, happen, or come |
| intelligible | capable of being understood; comprehensible; clear |
| motivate | stimulate toward action; to provide with a motive or motives; incite; impel |
| sanctuary | a sacred or holy place |
| catastrophe | a sudden and widespread disaster; any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco |
| strategy | a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result |
| valid | logically correct; well-grounded or justifiable |
| advent | a coming into place, view, or being; arrival; the coming of Christ into the world. |
| alliance | a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes;a merging of efforts or interests by persons, families, states, or organizations |
| anthology | a collection of selected writings by one author |
| defy | to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly |
| integrity | adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. |
| misdeed | an immoral or wicked deed |
| mystical | Rare. obscure in meaning; mysterious |
| nourish | to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth; to cherish, foster, keep alive |
| pacify | to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm;to appease |
| sustain | to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure; to undergo, experience, or suffer (injury, loss, etc.); endure without giving way or yielding |