Lesson 8-2
Terms
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- ingenious
- inventive, cunning, clever
- impetuous
- characterized by sudden emotion, energy, etc.; impulsive and passionate
- coalesce
- to grow together; to merge into a single body
- senescent
- aging; growing weak with age
- prodigious
- wonderful; amazing; very big
- ingenuous
- innocent; naive
- prodigal
- exceedingly or recklessly wasteful
- counsel
- advice or guidance; to give guidance to
- acquiesce
- to agree without protest
- luminescent
- emitting light not derived from heat, e.g. through chemical reaction
- evanescent
- fading from sight; transient
- nascent
- coming into being; being born
- impetus
- an impelling or originating force
- quiescent
- inactive, oft. suggesting a temporary state
- incandescent
- shining; glowing from within
- convalence
- to recover from illness; to recuperate
- complement
- something that completes a whole or brings to perfection
- prodigy
- one with exceptional talents
- obsolescent
- becoming out of date; going out of use
- council
- an assembly of people called together for deliberation or discussion