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vacab 3 part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| insurmountable | unable to overcome |
| iridescent | producing a display of lustrous rainbow like colors |
| maudlin | tearfully sentimental |
| nostalgia | a bittersweet longing for thing, persons, or situations of the past |
| panacea | a remedy for ll diseases, evils or difficulties |
| perfidy | deliberate breach of faith or violation of trust; treachery |
| plunder | to rob of goods bt force, esp. in the time of war; pillage |
| prodigious | impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous; extraordinary |
| retribution | something given or demanded in repayment; espicially punishment |
| saunter | to stroll leisurely |
| soporific | inducing or tending to induce sleep |
| surmise | to infer (something) wihout sufficient evidence |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |