Whaley's Midterm Vocab
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- Inured
- Accustomed to something painful
- Increments
- Small increases
- Recoiled
- Drew back in fear
- Paramount
- Supreme, dominate
- Annihilate
- Destroy, demolish
- Immutable
- Unchangeable
- Ponderous
- Heavy and slow-moving
- Apprehension
- Dread, fear of a future event
- Ineffably
- Indescribably
- Sidle
- Move sideways, especially in a shy manner
- Furtive
- Acting as if trying not to be seen
- Cowering
- drawing back or huddling in fear
- Doctrines
- Principles, beliefs
- Rifling
- Searching thoroughly or in a rough manner
- Prodigy
- Child of highly unusual talent
- Listlessly
- Without energy or interest
- Mesmerizing
- Spellbinding, hypnotic, fascinating
- Discordant
- Clashing, not in harmony
- Lamented
- Said with regret or sorrow
- Dawdled
- Wasted time, lingered
- Stricken
- Heartbroken, suffering from something painful
- Fiasco
- Complete failure
- Nonchalantly
- Without interest or concern
- Betrayal
- Failure to fulfill another's hopes
- Manifest
- Appear, become evident
- Ebbing
- Lessening or weakening
- Regressive
- Moving backward or returning to an earlier condition
- Fecund
- Fertile, producing abundantly
- Skirted
- Passed around rather than through
- Intermittent
- Appearing or occurring from time to time
- Irrevocable
- Incapable of being canceled or undone