Unit 5
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aghast | filled with amazement, disgust, fear, or terror |
| Ample | more than enough, large, spacious |
| Apparition | a ghost or ghostly figure; an unexplained or casual appearance |
| Assert | to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully |
| Cower | to crouch or shrink away in fear or shame |
| Disdain | 1. to look upon with scorn; to refuse scornfully 2. a feeling of contempt |
| Epitaph | a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone |
| Ethical | having to do with morals, values, rights and wrongs, in accordance with standards of rights conduct; requiring a prescription for purchase |
| Facetious | humorous, not meant seriously |
| Inaudible | not able to be heard |
| Indiscriminate | without restraint or control, unselective |
| Intrigue | 1. crafty dealing, underhanded plotting 2. to form and carry out plots; to puzzle or excite the curiosity |
| Jurisdiction | an area of authority or control; the right to administer justice |
| Plausible | appearing true, reasonable, or fair |
| Plebeian | 1. common, vulgar;belonging to the lower class 2. a common person, member of the lower class |
| Prodigal | 1. wastefully extravagant; lavishly or generously abundant 2. one who is wasteful and self-indulgent |
| Proximity | nearness, closeness |
| Pulverize | to grind or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome (as though by smashing into fragments) |
| Sequel | that which follows, a result; a literary work or film continuing the story of one written or made earlier |
| Volatile | highly changeable, fickle; tending to become violent or explosive; changing readily from the liquid to the gaseous state |
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