Language Arts: Unit 1 Vocabulary

Acend (verb)

Go up, to climb or rise

Acute

To be sharp or extra-sensitive to sounds, smells, etc

Amiable

Friendly

Apprehensive

Fearful or anxious, especially about the future

Audacity

To have courage or boldness

Briskly

In a quick energetic way

Compensation

something, such as money, received as payment

Conceive

To think of

Condemned

Bound, held prisoner, doomed

Congenial

Pleasant, neighborly, kind, sympathetic

Credulity

The willingness to believe in something without proof.

Crevice

A crack or gap in something

Derision

Ridicule; mockery; laughter; sarcasm

Emanate

To come forth, emit, give off

Fate

a power that is believed to control what happens in the future

Frivolous

Foolish, silly, unimportant

Grimace

a facial expression of fear, disapproval, or pain

Hypocritical

Deceptive or 2 faced

Ominous

Mysterious, threatening, or dark

Peril

Danger

Placidly

Quiet and Serenely

Rapacious

Greedy, ravenous, predatory

Resignation

acceptance of something that is inescapable

Stealthily

Cautiously; secretly

Stifled

Silenced, smothered

Tantalizing

Tempting, enticing, appealing

Vehemently

Intensely, passionately, excitedly

Vexed

To be annoyed or irritated