English Midterm Vocab
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- Meandering
- Twisting and Turning
- Fervent
- Extremely hot; glowing
- Metamorphosis
- A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function
- Manifest
- made obvious
- Infest
- Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group
- Fauna
- Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group
- Sinister
- Suggesting or threatening evil
- Alleged
- supposed
- Plaintive
- Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy
- Sovereign
- A king, queen, or other noble person who serves as chief of state; a ruler or monarch
- Emissary
- An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another
- Advocate
- To speak, plead, or argue in favor of.
- Docile
- Ready and willing to be taught; teachable
- Inconspicuous
- Not readily noticeable
- Quourum
- number of people needed for a business action to be verified
- Devout
- Highly religious
- Citadel
- A fortress in a commanding position in or near a city.
- Spurn
- To reject disdainfully or contemptuously
- Entice
- To attract by arousing hope or desire
- Granular
- Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains
- Culmination
- climax
- Benefactor
- someone who funds someone/something; Patron
- Venerable
- Requiring respect due to age or nobility
- Belligerent
- over exaggerated
- Attribute
- To relate to a particular cause or source
- Disperse
- To drive off or scatter in different directions
- Dexterity
- skill of hands and of mind
- Moor
- A swamp
- Prowess
- Superior skill or ability
- Superfluous
- Being beyond what is required or sufficient
- Humanitarian
- One who is devoted to the promotion of human welfare and the advancement of social reforms; a philanthropist.
- Palatial
- heavenly
- Frivolous
- Unworthy of serious attention; trivial
- Amity
- Peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship
- Demoralize
- To corrupt the morals of something
- Stagnant
- Not moving or flowing; motionless
- Apparition
- A ghostly figure; a specter