LA Vocab Test

Peril

The possibility that you will be hurt or killed/something bad will happen

Indulgently

Willing to allow someone to have something even though it may not be proper, healthy, etc…

Initiation

The process of being formally accepted as a member of a group/organization

Insinuate

To say something insulting in an indirect way

Annihilate

To destroy something or someone completely

Liquidate

1.)To sell something especially to pay off debt

2.)To destroy or kill something

Anguish

Extreme suffering, grief, or pain

Billet

To put someone in a private home to live there temporarily

Edict

An official order given by a person with power or by a government

Rescind

To end a law/contract officially

Relic

Something from a past time, place, or culture

Surreptitiously

Done in a secret way

Conflagration

A large, destructive fire

Intolerable

Too bad, harsh, or severe to be accepted

Constraints

Something that limits or restrict someone or something

Irrevocably

Not capable of being changed

Hermetically

Closed tightly so that no air can go in or out

Abyss

A hole so deep or a space so great that it can’t be measured

Throng

1.) A large group of people

2.)To go somewhere in a large group

Tumult

A state of noisy confusion or disorder

Invective

Harsh or insulting words/rude and angry language

Elude

1.) To avoid or escape something by being quick/clever

2.)Fail to be understood/remembered

3.)To fail to be achieved by

Infernal

1.) Of or relating to hell

2.) Very bad/unpleasant

Redemption

The act of saving people from sin and evil

Oblivion

The state of something that is not remembered, used, or thought about anymore

Harangue

1.) A forceful or angry speech

2.) To speak in a forceful/angry way