Andrea Reith Lesson 15 & 16 vocab
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- jaunts
- a short pleasent trip, excursion
- apathy
- lack of emotion or feeling, indifference
- tantalizing
- tempting, tormenting
- inverse
- inverted, reversed, opposite
- repast
- meal, food eaten at a meal
- cascade
- a small steep waterfall, something that falls in a manner similar to that of a waterfall, to fall or drop with rushing movement
- ravenous
- extremely hungry, predatory, greedy
- pungent
- sharply affecting the sense of tast or smell, sharp, keen biting
- induction
- an act of enrolling or bringing someone into a group or of formally placing in office, the process of arriving at a generlization from facts or examples
- sage
- very wise, perceptive, having wisdom from experience, an herb used to season food, a very wise person
- buoyant
- able to float, able to bounce back after a reverse or setback, cheerful
- incandescent
- glowing with intense heat, very bright
- benign
- not harmful, gentle, good-natured
- murky
- dark, gloomy, misty, hard to understand
- incessant
- unceasing, never stopping
- invigorating
- giving vigor to, enlivening, filling with energy
- opaque
- not letting light through, not transparent, hard to understand
- oppressive
- tyrannical, hard to take, mentally or physically distressing
- animated
- filled with life, lively, seeming alive, life like
- congruent
- in aggreement, harmonious, corresponding