Vocab 9 & 10

recalcitrant

stubbornly resisting authority, discipline, guidance, or treatment

pinnacle

highest point

siren

beautiful and dangerously fascinating woman who attracts and temps men

Adonis

extremely handsome young man

inexorable

unchangeable or unstoppable by pleading or begging; unyielding

tally

count up, add, record

bizarre

very strange, odd, fantastic

remorse

bitter and painful sense of guilt

spurious

not genuine

fervent

intense, passionate

harbinger

person or thing that signals what will follow

opportune

timely, suitable, favorable

skeptical

doubting, questioning

cardinal

fundamental, chief, of basic importance

trivial

of little importance

meretricious

insincere; vulgarly, showily, or cheaply attractive

lampoon

ridiculous or humorous attack on a person, group, or institution

fetish

object of obsessive concern or unreasoning devotion

zenith

point in the sky directly overhead; highest point

nadir

point in the sky directly opposite the zenith and directly beneath the observer; lowest point