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| terms | Defination |
|---|---|
| Zenith | The highest point or part |
| Witticism | Something said or done to cause laughter |
| Foliage | Plants leaves collectively |
| Eulogy | A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who just died |
| Antipathy | A strong feeling of dislike |
| Ascetic | Choosing to live without pleasures and luxuries |
| Decorum | Polite and socially acceptable behavior |
| Lurid | Causing horror or extremely disturbing |
| Edifice | A large impressive building |
| Pallor | Deficiency of color especially of the face |
| Placid | Serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| Portent | Something that foreshadows a coming event |
| Potentate | A ruler |
| Quaint | Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion |
| Propriety | Socially acceptable behavior |
| Grievous | Public shame or disgrace |
| Inopportune | Occuring at an inconvenient or inappropriate |
| Labyrinthine | Relating to or resembling /complication |
| Inclement | Unpleasing cold or wet |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| benign | mild type or character that does not threaten health or life especially Harmless gracious favorable wholesome |
| estrange | to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in (someone) where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness : |
| furrow | : a trench in the earth made by a plow A marked narrow depression grove or field |
| Inviolable | secure from violation or profanation secure from assault or trespass |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting given to jesting : habitually jolly |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion Weak |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen Foreshadowing evil |
| ponderous | unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size |
| solace | : to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : CONSOLE |
| superfluous | being over what is needed extra or unnecessary |
| Abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| Abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| Expiate | : to make amends for |
| Import | to bring from a foreign or external source: |
| Incongruity | the quality or state of being disagreed |
| Indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : UNTIRING |
| Inextricable | not capable of being solved |
| Infamous | causing or bringing infamy : DISGRACEFUL |
| Piety | the quality or state of being Devoted |
| Scintillating | brilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty |
| Calamity | event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| Depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| Erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying |
| Esoteric | Designed for or understand by the specially initiated alone private confidential |
| Ethereal | relating to the beyond the earth heavily spiritual /lacking material substance immaterial intangible |
| Evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| Exigent | requiring immediate aid or action |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of a disease or to cover ny excuses and apologies |
| Plaintive | expressive of suffering bitter |
| propinquity | nearness of blood nearness in place or time proximity |
| Abase | to lower in rank,office or esteem |
| Ascend | to move upward |
| dearth | an inadequate supply to lack |
| derision | to use riddule to show a concept |
| foreboding | prediction of something evil coming (foreshowiding ) |
| Fugitive | running away /difficult to retain |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law (felon) |
| peal | loud ringing bell /to give out |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient/ : a regular course of action and especially of strenuous training |
| replete | fat ,fully aboundaly , filled |
| Abstrute | : difficult to comprehend |
| Alchemist | a person who studies or practices alchemy |
| Amenable | having or showing willingness to agree or to accept something that is wanted or asked for readily yielding, submitting, or cooperating —usually used with to |
| Effervescent | having the property of forming bubbles : marked by or producing marked by or expressing an appealingly lively quality |
| Gentility | decorum of conduct attitudes or activity marked by false delicacy, |
| portal | door or entrance |
| Stalwart | Outstanding |
| Prolific | Fruitful ,abundant growth |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| primeval | of or relating to the earliest ages (as of the world or human history |
| Austere | cold appearance or manner |
| gaunt | excessive thin |
| odibous | hatred |
| petulance | the quality or state of petulant |
| Revere | worthy of great honor |
| tarry | to delay or stay in a place |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable |
| virtuous | morally excellent |
| vitiated | to make faulty or defective |
| abstemious | |
| admonish | warn advise or urge verb |
| pliable | easily bent ; flexible adj |
| quell | put an end to verb |
| rectify | put right; correct.verb |
| rue | bitterly regret/repent verb |
| sluggard | a lazy, sluggish person.noun |
| stealthy | behaving, done, or made in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard. adj |
| succinct | (especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed. short adj |
| voluminous | (of clothing or drapery) loose and ample.(of clothing or drapery) loose and ample. full/big adj |
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