Vocabulary 5-8
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- Omnipotent
- All-powerful, having unlimited power or influence
- Arbitrary
- Dictatorial or characterized by absolute power or authority; Random of based on whim rather than rule or law
- Vanquish
- Conquer, overpower, defeat completely; gain mastery or control over (physically or emotionally)
- Override
- To dominate, supress, or prevail over; to disregard or annul
- Constrain
- To force or compel; to restrain, confine or stifle
- Provocation
- Something that irritates, incites, angers, or excites
- Militate
- To have weight or effect or to operated against or in favor of (usually against)
- Embroil
- To involve in a quarrel, conflict, problem; thrown into confusion
- Contrive
- To scheme or plan, invent or design; to manage to do (Most often ideas- non material)
- Conduce
- To contribute toward, further, promote; lead toward a desirable result
- Ingratiate
- To bring oneself into another one's favor or good graces- To attempt to get on the "Good side"
- Incantation
- To use of magical words to cast a spell
- Conciliate
- To pacify or soothe the anger of; To win good will by friendly acts
- Mollify
- To pacify, soothe, or soften
- Assuage
- To pacify, calm, or satisfy, to make less severe
- Sufferance
- Toleration or permission implied by failure to interfere; patient endurance, the ability to bear or endure pain, distress
- Succumb
- To yield or give away to a superior force; To die (usually followed by "to")
- Susceptiable
- Easily influenced or impressionable; subject to, prone to, sensitive to
- Diabolic
- Fiendish, wicked, or having to do with the devil
- Iniquity
- Wickedness, sin or injustice
- Wanton
- Senseless, unjustified, unprovoked, or deliberately cruel or malicious or (extravagant or wasteful spending)
- Malefactor
- A criminal or evil doer, one who commits a serious affense
- Insidious
- Sly, crafty, underhanded or treacherous
- Flagrant
- sly wrong, bad, etc)
- Repugnant
- Repulsive, loathsome, offensive, very distasteful
- Eerie
- Wierd, frightening, strange, or mysterious
- Bogus
- Counterfeit or not genuine, fake
- Feign
- To pretend, imitate, or invent fasely
- Hoodwink
- To deceive or prevent from seeing the truth
- Consumate
- Perfect, extreme, supreme or in the highest degree
- Ultimate
- Fianl, furthest, greatestor beyond which it isimpossible to go
- Finite
- Having measurable or definable limits or bounds, mortal, limited in power, having imperfections
- Inconsiderable
- Trivial, petty, unimportant or not worth consideration
- Parochial
- Narrow, restricted, or limited, in range or scope
- Integral
- Essential to completion, organically linked as a unit, complete
- Piecemeal
- Made or accomplished gradually or piece by piece
- Sundry
- Various, several, or miscellaneous
- Teem
- To abound, swarm, or be filled to overflowing
- Copious
- Plentiful or abundant
- Exorbitant
- Excessive or extravagant
- Tally
- To count and record; The amount recorded; The record itself