ESL4 1st semester vocab
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- Awkward
- strange, uncomfortable
- Painstakingly
- very carefully
- Play dumb
- to pretend not to know
- Eye-popping
- very exciting to look at
- Hospitable
- very friendly, especially to visitors
- Curiosity
- interest, the need to know more so you ask a lot of questions
- Bill of Rights
- the first ten amendments of the Constitution
- Reside
- to live
- Defy
- to say or show that you will not obey
- Suffrage
- the right to vote
- Acute
- extremely sharp or intense
- Barrier
- something that blocks the way wholly or partially
- Retain
- to keep; to continue to allow
- Orbit
- to travel in a circle around an object (like a planet)
- Ritual
- any customary observance or practice; something done the same way
- Territory
- land that is owned an ruled by a country
- Conceal
- to hide
- Amendment
- A change to a document
- Gravity
- the force that pulls objects back to Earth
- Expedition
- a journey organized for a particular purpose
- Delegate
- a person appointed or elected to represent others
- Resolve
- to solve a problem
- Complicated
- difficult to do or understand
- Attempt
- to try
- Pageant
- a colorful kind of show, usually where people or animals are competing for a top prize
- Gawk
- look with amazement, look with awe
- Courageous
- Brave.
- Brilliant
- very smart or clever
- Satellite
- something that goes around another object in space
- Vicinity
- general area
- Inane
- silly, ridiculous
- Sketch
- a drawing, or to draw quickly
- Journey
- a long trip
- Abolish
- To do away with
- Miserable
- very unhappy, very uncomfortable
- Wilderness
- an area where no people live
- Quest
- a journey in search for something
- Launch
- to send off from the Earth upward
- Time on my hands
- free time
- Preside
- to be in charge, to lead a meeting
- Explore
- to look around a new place
- Unknown
- something that is unfamiliar
- Insist
- to demand, to say firmly that something has to happen
- Stunned
- very surprised
- Concept
- idea; thought; notion
- Look down on
- to not have a good opinion about something, so think you are better than someone/something
- Excel
- to do very well
- Inspire
- to encourage to be or act a certain way; to encourage to be creative
- Vital
- very important, necessary
- Covet
- to wish for enviously
- Recall
- to remember
- Peer
- a person who is an equal, usually of the same age
- Treaty
- an agreement, usually between countries
- Astronaut
- a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
- Guarantee
- a promise or pledge