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Language Arts Vocab
All of semester 1's vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asylum | sanctuary, refuge, institution for the mentally ill. |
| Bungalow | one story cottage |
| Cavern | a large cave |
| Depot | storehouse, warehouse, railroad, or bus station |
| Galley | a long, low ancient ship propelled by oars; the kitchen of a ship or airplane |
| Hearth | stone floor of a fire place |
| Labyrinth | a maze (confusing maze) |
| Lagoon | an area of shallow salt water |
| Landmark | a prominent feature of landscape |
| Metropolis | a large city or center |
| Monestary | a residence for monks |
| Peninsula | land with water on three sides |
| Plateau | an elevated tract of flat land |
| Quay | wharf; dock |
| Vestibule | a small entrance hall or room either to a building or larger room |
| Accumulate | to collect over a period of time |
| Bankrupt | legally unable to pay your debts |
| Cache | safe place to hide things |
| Counterfeit | an imitation made to decieve; also known as forgery |
| Embezzle | to steal by froad (entrusted to ones care) |
| Entreat | to ask earnestly to apeal or to plead |
| Hoard | to accumulate or hide or keep in reserve |
| Implore | to call upon in supplication; ask earnestly for something; to beg |
| Larceny | the crime of unlawfully taking away anothers property; theft of property |
| Mendicant | given to or characterized by begging; living on alms. Someone who begs |
| Mortgage | to pledge to pay back a debt |
| Pilfer | to steal in small quantities |
| Plagiarize | to paw off someone else's work as their own |
| Theif | a person who steals especially secretly and use without permission |
| Usurp | to sieze and hold with legal right or authority |
| Diverged | to move or extend in different directions from a common point, branch off |
| Undergrowth | low-lying vegitation or small trees growing beneath larger trees |
| Trodden | to step or walk on, to trample or crush underfoot |
| Hence | from this time, from now on |
| Merciless | without mercy, pitiless, cruel |
| Inclination | a liking or preferenc, a tendency toward a certain condition, action |
| Sow | an adult female pig |
| Convoy | the protection of an escort |
| Glistening | to reflect a sparkling light or a faint glow, shine |
| Propeling | to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward, to impel or urge onward |
| Munificent | very generous, characterized by great generosity |
| Embryonic | rudimentary, underdeveloped |
| Dignified | grave, noble, honored |
| Sulking | to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in an ill-humored or offended mood |
| Pedigree | an ancestral line, line of descent, ancsetry, derivation, origin, or history |
| Inconspicuous | not noticeable, not really noticeable |
| Anecdote | a short account of an incident in someones life |
| Aver | to declare to be true; to state positively; to affirm |
| Braggart | one who boasts or brags |
| Concur | to agree |
| Counsel | to advise; to give advice; discussion and deliberation; advice; lawyer |
| Fabricate | to make, build, construct, especially by assembling parts already manufactured; to make up a story or lie; invent |
| Frank | candid; honest |
| Gist | the basic idea of |
| Interrogate | to ask questions formally in examining |
| Murmur | to make a low, indistinct, continuous sound; a low, indistinct, continuous sound, as of a stream of far off voices; a mumbled or muttered complaint |
| Mute | not speaking; voluntarily silent; unable to speak; not spoken |
| Narrate | to tell a story |
| Negotiate | to make arrangements with a view to reaching an agreement; try to settle; to surmount; to cross |
| Pun | play on words, to make pun or puns |
| Reassure | to give confidence to |
| Amend | to make better; to improve; to correct; to change or revise (a law or legislative bill) |
| Cram | to fill (a space) beyond normal capacity by pressing or squeezing; to stuff into; to improve the Constitution |
| Despair | to give up hope; loss of hope |
| Eave | roof overhang |
| Eccentric | odd; unusual; one who is odd or unusual |
| Forbidding | looking dangerous or threatening; not allowing |
| Germinate | to begin to grow; as from a spore; seed or bud; to start developing or growing |
| Habitat | natural home |
| Imply | to suggest; to hint; to implicate |
| Maze | confusing pathway |
| Ordeal | difficult or painful experience |
| Prohibit | to forbid; to outlaw |
| Scour | to clean by vigorously scrubbing |
| Spacious | large; having more than enough room or space |
| Utterly | completely; totally |
| Ambrosia | the food of the gods |
| Atlas | a book of maps |
| Centaur | monster with the head and arms of a man and the body and legs of a horse |
| Echo | the repitition of sound |
| Herculean | very powerful or courageous |
| Hygiene | sanitary practice |
| iridescent | showing shifting changes in color from different angles |
| jovial | full of hearty, playful good humor; genial |
| mentor | a wise, loyal advisor |
| mercurial | having the qualities of the god mercury, such as eloquence, cleverness, shrewdness, and thievishness, having qualities suggestive of mercury; quick; quick witted changeable |
| nemisis | just punishment anyone or anything it seems one must inevitably be defeated of frustrated |
| oddessey | any extended wandering or journey |
| panic | sudden fear to react to a crisi with great fear |
| tantalize | to tease or dissapoint by promising or showing something desirable and then withholding it |
| zephyr | a soft gentle breeze |
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