vocab 9
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- cautionary
- offering or serving as a warning
- constrain
- to confine, inhibit, or hold back by force
- flotilla
- a fleet of boats or small ships
- gossamer
- thin, sheer fabric resembling gauze; a fine, filmy substance made of strands of cobweb
- ignominious
- marked by, deserving, or causing shame or disgrace
- incur
- to bring upon oneself something undesirable, such as debt
- liquidate
- to settle the affairs of a business; to convert into cash; to get rid of; to kill or destroy
- magnate
- an important, often wealthy, person prominent in a large industry or business
- misnomer
- a name that does not fit
- onerous
- burdensome; oppresive
- pandemonium
- a state or place of great confusion or uproar
- quixotic
- romantic ad idealistic, but impractical
- tenacious
- holding fast; persistent in adhering to something valued or habitual
- vestige
- a trace of something that once was present
- zephyr
- a light, gentle breeze