Word Wealth- Unit 7
Terms
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- acute
- sharp, severe, perceptive
- agile
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nimble, quick and skillful
* nimble- quick alert, and deft of mind or body
* supple- flexible, yielding in mind or body, quick to respond or adapt - erratic
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irregular, wandering, having no fixed course; lagre rock deposited by a glacier
* knight errant- wandering knight
* erroneous- wrong, deviant, or mistaken belief
* abberation- mental, derangement, error in scientific observation - exorbitant
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excessive, unreasonable (in what one asks)
* inordinate- beyond reason, without restraint - exultant
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joyful jubilant
* jubilation- whole hearted rejoicing and is thus more vociferous than exultation
* jubilee- celebration- time or occasion of rejoicing - inane
- senseless, empty
- inferior
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low(er) in place or quality
* ersatz- substitute, usually inferior - implicit
- unquesting, implied
- inert
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inactive, or lifeless
* passive- unwillingness to act or lead
* indolent- lazy and thus inactive
* listless- indifferent,uninterested, or languid ( lethargy, stupor, torpor) - infernal
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hellish, fiendish
* diabolic(al)- scheme is devilish, fit for or devised by a devil
* excrable- temper is bady ugly, hellish-----literally worthy of curses - fugitive
- one who flees, a runaway
- indignation
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justifiable anger
* vexation- strong annoyance, milder than anger
* resentment- restrained, slow burning anger
* animosity- strong hostility, usually personal - insolence
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insulting behavior, impudence
*impudence- rash, bold, insolent in a self-superior way - obeisnace
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bow or curtsy, respect
* genuflection- knee bending in worship
* salaam- middle eastern greeting in which one bows very low - repose
- rest, quiet
- retinue
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group of attendants
* cortege- procession of followers or attendants
* entourage - sanction
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approval, authorization
* dispensation- approval by church of some exception or variation from its rules or laws
* indulgence- enjoyment, satisfaction or *leniancy-- mild or merciful - succor
- aid, help
- strategy
- skill in manuevering, or planning
- tyranny
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opressive or unjust govenment
* autocrat- tyrannical person who may dominate a school room, home, business, or nation
* despot- tyrant belonging more likely to a regular line of succession