Vocabulary for Mid Term 3
Lessons 13 and 14
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- Endemic
- Common in or unique to a certain location or population.
- Despoil
- To thoroughly rob and destroy a place; to plunder; to loot.
- Ubiquitous
- Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time.
- Paragon
- A model of perfection or excellence of a kind; an unparalleled example.
- Pinnacle
- A tail, pointed formation, such as a mountain peak.
- Wrest
- To obtain through a violent, twisting motion.
- Unwonted
- Not habitual or ordinary; unusual.
- Mundane
- Commonplace; ordinary.
- Incongruous
- Lacking in harmony; incompatible.
- Aberrant
- Deviating from theproper or expected course; abnormal.
- Obviate
- To anticipate and prevent a difficulty; to make unnecessary.
- Outlandish
- Strikingly bizarre or unfamiliar.
- Caustic
- Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
- Effectual
- Producing or able to produce a desired effect; fully adequate.
- Raze
- To level the ground; to demolish.
- Stultify
- To make useless or ineffective; to negate.
- Eccentricity
- The quality of straying from what is conventional or customary; a deviation from the normal, expected, or established.
- Surmount
- To overcome a difficulty or an obstacle.
- Deleterious
- Harnful; injurious.
- Anomaly
- A depatrure from the normal or ordinary form, order, or rule.