vocab test ela 20

Acquisitive

strong urge to acquire or possess things

Adhere

stick firmly to something; to obey

Adversary

opponent

Adversity

state of hardship or misfortune

Arbitration

process of settling a dispute with a neutral third party

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

Awe

wonder with reverence + fear

Brutality

savage physcial violence

Cumulative

increasing accumulatively

Discernible

able to be recognized/noticed

Disdain

The feeling that someone/something is beneath respect

Disfigure

spoil the appearance of something

Doggedness

persistent determination

Dynastic

Relating to a succession of rulers from the same family

Ecstasy

overwhelming feeling of happiness

Egocentric

thinking only of yourself, self centered

Egotistical

excessively self absorbed/conceited

Embodiment

visible representation of an idea/quality

Emphatic

expressing something forcibly and clearly

Euphoric

feeling intense excitement or happiness

Fanaticism

excessive obsessive enthusiasm for a cause or belief

Flamboyant

attraction attention due to style/confidence

Fleeting

lasting for a very short time

Forebode

predict that something bad will happen

Foreshadow

to hint or indicate at a future event

Fruitless

failing to achieve a desired result

Fusion

combing two or more into one

Futile

Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless

Habitual

done out of habit

Heir

someone who inherits property or a title (legally)

Hyperbole

exaggeration

idyllic

peaceful, beautiful, happy

incoherent

expressed in a confusing or unclear way

inextinguishable

can’t put out

indicative

sign or indication of something

dynastic vs heir

dynastic is about entire families, heir is about discussions of inheritance

ecstasy vs euphoric

ecstasy is uncontrollable, transcendent, euphoric is controlled, less extreme

indicative vs foreshadow vs forebode

indicative is used when there’s evidence to show a result, forebode is used as a dreadful warning, foreshadow is meant as a clue to prepare

egocentric vs egotistical

egocentric is about a way of thinking/perspective, egotistical is about behavior vs attitiude

fruitless vs futile

fruitless is about lack of results from efforts, futile is lack of point in the effort in the first place