Vocab 5-8
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- Omnipotent
- all powerful or having unlimited power or influence
- Arbitrary
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dictorial or characterized by absolute power or athority.
Selected at random; or based on whims or notions rather than on rule or laws. - Vanquish
- to conquere overpower or defeat comletely; or gain mastery or control over
- override
- to dominate;supress or prevail over or to disregaurd or anolled.
- constrain
- to force or compell; or to restrain confine or stifle. also mean imprison or restrict to the movement of or force in an unnatural way
- Provocation
- something that irritates insights angers or excites.
- Militate
- have weight or effect or opperate again or in favor of something.
- Embroil
- to involve in a quarrel, conflict or problem. or to throw into confusion.
- contrive.
- to scheme or plan, or to invent or design, to manage to do or to bring about.
- conduce
- to contribute toward further or promote or to lead toward a desirable result.
- ingratiate
- to bring oneself into anothers favor or good graces.
- incantation
- the use of magical words to cast a spell or magic or sorcery.
- conciliate
- to passify, placate or soothe the anger of; or to win goodwill by friendly acts.
- mollify
- to soothe, passify, softer, or reduce in intensity.
- assuage
- to passify, calm, or satisfy, or to make less severe.
- Sufferance
- toleration or permission implied by failure to interphere; patient endurance or the ability ro bear or endure pain distress. etc.
- succumb
- to yeild or to give way to supperior force; or to die.
- susceptible.
- easily influenced or impressionable; or in subject to, prone to, or sensitive to.
- eccentric
- strange, peculiar, unconventional, or deviating from the normal. can also mean off center.
- idiosyncrasy
- a personal peculiarity, olr eccentricity.
- ludicrous
- rediculous, absurd, or laughable. implys being so proposterous to deserve laughter and scorn.
- frivolous
- silly trivial, lacking seriousness or sense or of little value or importance.
- drivel
- silly or foolish talk. also mean sloober.
- glib.
- too ready fluent or smooth to be sincere or carefully considered. implys shallowness superficiality or insecurity.
- pompous
- showy, pretentios or over dignified; or acting self important.
- lethargy
- laziness, great lack of energy sluggishness or indifference.
- encroach
- to tresspass entrude make inroads upon or take undo libertys with often implies making inroads stealthily
- interloper
- a meddler or one who entrudes on the rights or affairs of another
- indignity
- an insult or outrage or something that offends humiliates or injusres ones dignity or self respect.
- foolhardy
- rash, foolishly bold, or recklessly daring implys taking unneccesary chances when there is almost no hope for success.
- Diabolic
- fiendish, wicked or having to do with the devil
- iniquity
- wickedness sin or injustice
- wanton
- senseless, unjustified, unprovoked, or diliberately cruel or maliocious; unrestrained extravegant, or wasteful.
- malefactor
- a criminal, an evil doer or one who commits a serious offense.
- insidious
- sly, crafty, underhanded or treacheras, implies watching for an opportunity ro entrapt or carefully masked underhandedness.
- flagrant
- scandalous, outrageous, or glaringly bad. usually obviously wrong.
- repugnant
- repulsive, loathesome, offensive, or very distasteful. contradictory ro or inconsistent with.
- eerie
- weird, frightening, strange, or mysterious, usually causes vague or mysterious feeling of uneasiness or dread.
- bogus
- counterfeit, or not genuine.
- feign
- to pretend, imitate or invent falsly, or to make a false show of it
- hoodwink
- to deceive or pretend from seeing the truth.
- consummate
- perfect, extreme, supreme, or in the highest degree.
- ultimate.
- final, furthest, greatest possibility, or beyond which is impossible to go.
- finite.
- having mesasurable or definate limits.
- inconsiderable
- trivial, petty, unimportant, or not worthy of consideration.
- parochial
- narrow, provincial, restricted, or limited in range or scope.
- integral
- essential to completeness, organically linked, or formed as a unit. or complete or lacking nothing essential.
- piecemeal
- made or accomplished gradually. or piece by piece.
- sundry
- various, several, or miscellaneous.
- teem
- to abound swarm, or befilled to overflowing.
- prevalent
- widespread or generally occuring; practiced or accepted.
- copious
- plentiful or abundant.
- exorbitant
- excessive, extravagant or immoderate.
- tally.
- to count, record; the amount recorded; the record itself; or to agree or correspond.