Term 1 Vocabulary words

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Accentuate

to emphasize

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Adversary

someone who offers opposition

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Anecdote

a brief story

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Analogy

a similarity between unlike things

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Auspicious

promising success, favourable

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Boisterous

rough and noisy

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Cower

to crouch in fear

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Despondent

feeling complete hopelessness

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Epiphany

a sudden insight or idea

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Fallacy

a deceptive or false belief

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Formidable

causing fear or dread

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Guile

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

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Hubris

excessive pride, arrogance

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Impertinent

not relevant, irrelevant

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Jaunty

carefree manner

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Laconic

using few words

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Nuisance

annoyance

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Muse

in Ancient Greek mythology, any of the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of art or science

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Obscure

not clear

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Omnipotent

Unlimited power

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Patriarchal

involving men or a father figure

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Quandary

uncertainty

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Sanguine

cheerfully optimistic

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Succinct

concise, expressed in few words

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Subjugate

to bring under complete control

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Tempestuous

attitude resembling a tempest; turbulent

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Usurp

to use without authority; to seize power from someone else

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Uncouth

awkward and clumsy

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