vocabulary 16 using context clues. abyss bottomless gulf; anything too deep to measure
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Vocabulary 16
Using Context Clues
Abyss
• Bottomless gulf; anything too deep to measure
Agenda
• A list or program of things to be done or considered
Ephemeral
• Short-lived; lasting for a markedly brief time
Equilibrium
• A state of balance between opposing forces
Expend
• To lay out or use up
Fortuitous
• Happening by chance or accident
Grapple
• To try to cope with
Ideology
• A set of beliefs of an individual or a group
Palpable
• Easily perceived by the senses; obvious; touchable
Transient
• Temporary; passing with time
Vocabulary 17
Using definitions
Fraught
• Involving; full of; accompanied by
Frivolous
• Of little or no worth or importance; not worthy of serious notice; characterized by lack of seriousness or sense; trifling, petty, paltry, silly, foolish
gratify
• To give pleasure to by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings; to satisfy; indulge; humor, as one’s desires or appetites
Momentum
• Force or speed of movement; impetus
Narrate
• To give an account or tell the story of; to relate or recount events, experiences, etc. in speech or writing
Serendipity
• An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident
Torrid
• Subject to parching or burning heat from the sun; oppressively hot, parching, burning; ardent; passionate; tropical, scorching, fiery
Ultimate
• Last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series; maximum; decisive or conclusive; highest; extreme, remotest, uttermost
Vigilant
• Keenly watchful to detect danger or trouble; ever awake and alert; sleeplessly watchful
Wend
• To pursue or direct one’s way
Vocabulary 18
Prefixes That Tell Where
Circumlocution
• The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language; evasion in speech or writing; roundabout expression
Circumstance
• Condition or fact attending an event and having some bearing on it; a determining or modifying factor
Interact
• To act upon one another
Intersperse
• To distribute among other things at intervals
Intervention
• The act of coming between to modify, settle, or hinder some action
Midcontinent
• Located in the center of a land mass
Midlife
• Located in the middle of one’s period of existence
Subconscious
• Part of the mind below the level of awareness
Submerge
• To place under water; cover from view; obscure
Substandard
• Failing to meet a criterion or requirement