| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Quandary | A state of uncertainty |
| Nascent | Beginning, to start |
| Surcease | To stop, desist |
| Castellated | To make like a castle |
| Encompass | To encircle |
| Tactual | Sense of touch |
| Zephyr | Breeze, Insubstantial |
| Hone | To improve |
| Incarnate | Personified |
| Idiom | A saying native to the land |
| Infuse | To introduce, cause to penetrate |
| Voracious | To crave, ravenous |
| Indiscriminate | Lacking judgment |
| Despotic | Tyrannical |
| Garish | Showy, too colorful |
| Subversive | To attempt to overthrow |
| Inexorable | Unalterable |
| Proficient | Skilled |
| Reiterate | To repeat |
| Coalesce | To grow together into one body |
| Avenge | He avenged his brother |
| Revenge | He took revenge on his murdered brother |
| Paradigm | Normal, average |
| Paragon | Model of excellence |
| Depreciate | To reduce in price |
| Amiss | Out of proper order |
| Dominion | Realm |
| Avaricious | Greedy |
| Rueful | To cause sorrow, pity |
| Dire | To cause fear |
| Pervasive | To spread throughout |
| Inexpicable | Cant be explained |
| Transfix | To hold motionless with amazement |
| Cleft | To split, by cutting |
| Allusion | A passing or casual reference |
| Illusion | A false impression of reality |
| Delusion | Mistaken or false reality |
| Entreat | To beg |
| Usurp | To sieze power |
| Portentous | Amazing, marvelous |
| Auspicious | Favorable conditions |
| Filial | Sons obedience to father |
| Jocund | Cheerful |
| Calumnious | Slanderous, scurrilous |
| Imminent | Likely to occur |
| Precept | Comanding advice |
| Behoove | To be necessary for |
| Alternate | To change back and forth |
| Alternative | Another choice |
| Myself | An intensive for me or I |
| Prodigal | Wasteful |
| Expostulate | To reason agains something that someone is going to do |
| Superfluous | Excessive |
| Collateral | Parrallel, what is owed in repermation |
| Peruse | To read with thoroughness |
| Circumvent | To bypass |
| Equivocation | The use of ambiguous expressions |
| Requiem | Mass celebrated for the souls of the dead |
| Pall | A cloth over a coffin |
| Perdition | Damnation, loss of soul |
| Dearth | An inadequate supply |
| Umbrage | To be offended |
| Felicity | Bliss, the state of being happy |
| Belie | Contradict, to show to be false |
| Impeccable | Flawless |
| Prejudice | Noun, An unfqavorable opinion formed beforehand |
| Prejudiced | Adj, Some one is prejudiced |
| Raise | To lift up |
| Rise | To get up |
| Sullen | Resenticully silent |
| Lilting | Cheerful tune |
| Incantation | The chanting of words to have magical power |
| Pulsate | To vibrate or quiver |
| Rapt | Transport, to be absorbed |
| Contrition | Remorse |
| Myriad | Big number |
| Desultory | Lacking in consistency |
| Crystalline | Transparent, like a crystal |
| Antithesis | Opposition |
| Advice | Noun, recommendation |
| Advise | Verb, to give counsel to |
| Affect | Verb, To act on |
| Effect | Noun, To change |
| Qualm | Regrets for doing something bad |
| Incognito | To be invisible |
| Suave | Smoothly agreeable |
| Nonchalant | Coolly unconcerned |
| Blase | Bored because youve done it already |
| Pedagogical | A teacher |
| Provocative | To provoke |
| Cynical | Fear of the motives of others |
| Droll | Amusing in an odd way |
| Opaque | Unclear, transparent, hard to understand |
| Accept | Verb, to recieve |
| Except | Prep, To exclude |
| Adapt | To learn to cope with things |
| Adopt | To choose to take as ones own |
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