English Vocab

Luminous

Emitting light, especially in the dark, shining.

Potent

Possessing inner or physical strength, powerful.

Avert

to keep from happening or prevent

Cataract

a large or high waterfall

Nettle

any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants

Obstinacy

The state or quality of being stubborn or refractory

Veeted

Settled, fixed, or absolute, being without contingency

Proprietary

Of or relating to a proprietor to ownership

Depose

to remove from office or power

Tempered

Adjusted or attuned by the addition of a counterbalancing element; moderated or measured

Ensure

To take place afterward or as a result

Entreaty

An earnest request or petition

Esteem

To regard as; consider

Mollify

To calm the anger of; sooth or appease

Magnanimity

To disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity.

Requite

To make return for in a similar or appropriate fashion

Manifest

To show or demonstrate plainly, reveal

Contemn

To view with contempt, despise

Reprove

To express disapproval to someone to criticize

Fathorn

A unit of length used principally in the measurement and specification of marine depths

Desolate

lifeless

Quell

To pacify, quite

Lamentable

Inspiring or deserving of lament or regret, deplorable or potable

Skulk

To move about stealthily

Commodity

Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage

Feigned

Made-up; fictitious

Dispossess

To deprive of the possession or occupancy of something

Incense

To cause to be extremely angry; infuriate

Restitution

The act of restoring to the rightful owner something that has been taken away, lost, or surrendered

Scarcity

Insufficiency of amount of supply; shortage

Subsist

To remain or continue in existence

Dissemble

To disguise or conceal one’s real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance

Abridge

To limit; curtail

Superfluity

Something superfluous

Doleful

Filled with or expressing grief, mournful

Daunt

To lessen the courage or resolution of dishearten or intimidate

Ravenous

Predatory or ferocious in predation

Grievous

Causing grief, pain, or anguish

Disconsolate

Seeming beyond consolation, extremely dejected

Inhumane

Lacking pity or compassion