English vocab final

Preamble

Introduction to law

Preponderance

Superiority in power

Recession

Withdrawing

Refuge

People fleeing

Restoration

Reconstruction

Prostrate

Stretched out

Prelude

Introductory event

Preoccupy

Engage interest

Redress

Compensation

Protrude

Stuck out

Jeopardize

put (someone or something) into a situation in which there is a danger of loss, harm, or failure; threaten

Obliterate

to destroy, remove, or wipe out something completely, leaving no trace.

Agitate

Make(someone) troubled or nervous

Anarchy

the absence of government, rulers, or formal authority.

Capitulate

cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; back down

Ridicule

the subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour.

Informant

a person who gives information to another.

Vanquish

Defeat thoroughly

Aggression

feelings of anger or antipathy resulting in hostile or violent behaviour; readiness to attack or confront.

Rancor

Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing

Severance

Cutting something or someone

Depravity

moral corruption; wickedness.

Complexity

something that is complicated or hard to understand

Civility

the state of being humane 

Felicity

The state of being in joy or intense happiness 

Forbearance

patient self-control; restraint and tolerance. 

Subsistence

The state of having the means to survive

Variance

the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent.

Deference

The state of showing respect.

Prosperity

The state of being prosperous

Commentary

Explanation

Monotone

Succession of sounds

Lustrous

Surface that shines with soft light

Fervent

Passionate action

Evocative

Tending to Recreate through imaginative power; calling forth 

Invoke

To petition for help or support; to appeal to or cite as authority.

Resonance

Vibration; echo

Intonation

The rise and fall in pitch of the voice in speaking.

Elucidate

To clarify

Inflection

Change in pitch or tone in someone’s voice