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MLK Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Majestic | Having or showing impressive beauty or dignity |
| Scorn | The feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt |
| Debilitating | To make weak and infirm |
| Beleaguered | Beset with difficulties |
| Contemplation | The action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time |
| Antithetical | Directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible |
| Sterile | Not able to produce children or young |
| Audacious | Showing a willingness to take bold risks |
| Ambiguities | Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards to interpretation |
| Mere | Being nothing more than what is specified |
| Militaristic | A strong military spirit or policy; the principle or policy of maintaining a large military establishment |
| Prostrate | Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward |
| Essence | The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, esp something abstract that determintes its character |
| Turmoil | A state of great disturbance; confusion or uncertainty |
| Cynical | Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity |
| Flotsam | The wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea |
| Jetsam | Unwanted material or goods that have been thrown overboard from a ship and washed ashore |
| Unrelenting | Not yielding in strength |
| Triumphant | Feeling or expressing jubilation after having won a victory or mastered a difficulty |
| Curator | A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection |