eng vocab

1. minion: ( n )   a follower of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

2. prophetic: ( adj )  accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future

3. vantage: ( n  )   a place or position affording a good view of something

4. treason: ( n )  the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government

5. harbinger: ( n ) a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another

6. dire: ( adj )  extremely serious or urgent

7. trifle: ( v ) treat (someone or something) without seriousness or respect

8. surmise: ( v )  suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it

9. dwindle: ( v )  diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength

10. lavish: (adj )   sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious

11. deign: ( v ) do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity

12. thither : ( adv ) to or toward that place

13. interim: ( n ) the intervening time

14. chastise: ( v )  rebuke or reprimand severely

15. wanton: ( adj )  deliberate and unprovoked; sexually liberated