Into Thin Air Vocab #2
10 words, Mount Everest
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- Fortuitous
- Occurring by happy chance, lucky; accidental.
- Ambivalence
- Uncertainty or fluctuation., mixed feelings or emotions
- Ostentatious
- Intended to attract notice and impress others.
- Caustic
- Any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue; capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- Inherent
- Existing as a natural part; Existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseperable element, quality, or attribute.
- Fallacy
- (n.) A false notion or belief; an error in thinking; A deceptive, misleading, or false notion.
- Obviate
- To anticipate and prevent or eliminate( difficulties, disadvantages), to prevent; to make unnecessary.
- Abate
- To reduce in amount, degree, intensity.
- Portent
- A sign of something about to happen; An indication or omen of something about to happen.
- Lethargic
- Unnaturally drowsy; sluggish; dull.