Vocab (126-150)
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- gorge
- to eat greedily
- illustrious
- celebrated; widely known and dignified
- guerrilla
- irregular force of local fighters who are organized to sporadically combat, or at least ambush, the better-equipped armies of foreign invaders
- incorrigible
- incapable of being corrected or amended
- inaugurate
- to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies
- hedonistic
- characterized by the pursuit of sensual pleasures
- incantation
- a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung for a magic effect
- hagiography
- biography of saints or venerated persons
- heathen
- strange, uncivilized, a person that does not believe in religion
- harmonious
- peaceable or friendly relations; agreement
- impassioned
- filled with passion or zeal
- indigenous
- having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment
- haughty
- blatantly and disdainfully proud, arrogant, condescending
- iconoclastic
- description of a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
- gregarious
- outgoing; friendly
- impediment
- something that hinders or obstructs; obstacle
- ideology
- integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program
- homage
- public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement
- imperial
- of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor
- impishly
- in an appealing but bold manner
- incongruous
- not conforming; disagreeing; incompatible: not harmonious
- heinous
- horrible; abominable; reprehensible; hatefully or shockingly evil
- illusory
- causing illusion; deceptive; misleading
- indelible
- that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased
- incendiary
- of or containing chemicals that cause fire when exploded; arousing to action or rebellion