Lesson 10 & 11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adversity | n. great trouble or difficulty |
| conflagration | n. a huge fire, an inferno |
| confounding | adj. puzzling; baffling |
| cryptic | adj. hidden, hard to understand; mysterious; obscure |
| debacle | n. a failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical |
| enigma | n. a riddle or mystery; a puzzling or baffling matter or person |
| labyrinth | n. a maze from which it is very hard to extricate or free oneself |
| precarious | adj. dangerous or risky; uncertain |
| quagmire | n. a difficult or troubling situation; a swampy ground, bog or mire. |
| quandary | n. a dilemma; a confusing puzzling situation |
| turbulence | n. great unrest; turmoil or disorder |
| turmoil | n. a turbulent scenario or situation; tumult |
| baneful | adj. causing ruin; harmful; pernicious |
| deleterious | adj. harmful to one's health or overall welfare; pernicious |
| detrimental | adj. harmful |
| devious | adj. dishonest or deceptive; tricky |
| iniquitous | adj. showing a lack of fairness; wicked vicious |
| malicious | adj. intending to hurt or harm another; spiteful |
| nefarious | adj. very mean and wicked |
| odious | adj. loathesome; evil; revolting in a disguisting way |
| ominous | adj. pertaining to an evil omen; foreboding |
| pernicious | adj. very destructive or harmful, usually in an inconspicuous and relentless way |
| rancorous | adj. deeply hateful or spiteful; malicious |
| virulent | adj. extremely poisonous; deadly; full of spitful hatred. |
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