lesson 8
Terms
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- inconsequential
- adj. lacking importance or worth; unable to make an impact; trivial
- implement
- n. a tool or intrument v. to carry out
- galvanize
- v. to excite or arouse action
- vanguard
- n. the leading of forward postion in a movement
- adjacent
- adj. near or next to; adjoining
- beset
- v. 1 to surround or to attack repeatedly 2. to trouble or weigh down
- materialize
- v. to beomce real or actual to appear in physical form, especially suddenly
- prohibitive
- adj. serving to restrain action or discourage use of
- desultory
- adj. proceeding or carried out in an aimless or random way
- muster
- n. a gathering, usually of military forces v. to summon or call forth; to gather
- visionary
- n. a person who is given to ideas that are not currently realistic; a dreamer adj. able to see what might be accomplished in the future
- cede
- v. to give up or transfer, especially by treaty or formal agreement
- reminisce
- v. to think or talk about ones past n. the act of remembering; a recollection adj. suggestive of something else
- circuitous
- adj. roundabout; indirect
- magnitude
- n. greatness of size, power, or influence