Vocabulary Archive
Adoptive | Adjective | Related by adoption, as opposed to by birth.
Ambition | Noun | Desire to achieve fame or fortune.
Antique | Adjective | Of an earlier period.
Coaxed | Verb | Obtained by persuasion or pleading.
Contour | Noun | Outline or shape.
Dignity | Noun | Honor.
Fragile | Adjective | Easily broken.
Idle | Adjective | To remain inactive.
Impulse | Noun | Motivating force.
Inducements | Noun | Influences or incentives.
Inferiority | Noun | Sense of feeling undervalued or being lesser or lower valued.
Irascible | Adjective | Easily angered.
Juvenile | Adjective | Not fully grown or developed; young.
Lustrous | Adjective | Gleaming with brilliant light.
Maneuvered | Verb | Shifted; moved.
Maturity | Noun | Time of being developed fully physically.
Menial | Adjective | Appropriate for a servant.
Permission | Noun | Consent or agreement for doing something.
Perplexing | Adjective | Troubling or confusing.
Plush | Adjective | Soft, thick fabric.
Pore | Verb | Read or study attentively.
Prism | Noun | Lens or medium that distorts slightly.
Refrained | Verb | Held back (stopped).
Remote | Adjective | Located far away; distant.
Shuddered | Verb | Shivered out of fear.
Taut | Adjective | Pulled or drawn tight with fear.
Tenement | Noun | Run-down, low rental apartment building.
Tenet | Noun | Belief or principle.
Triumph | Noun | A victory or win.
Vicinity | Noun | Nearby; in the general area of.
Voraciously | Adverb | Greedily, with an appetite that seemingly cannot be satisfied.
Ambition | Noun | Desire to achieve fame or fortune.
Antique | Adjective | Of an earlier period.
Coaxed | Verb | Obtained by persuasion or pleading.
Contour | Noun | Outline or shape.
Dignity | Noun | Honor.
Fragile | Adjective | Easily broken.
Idle | Adjective | To remain inactive.
Impulse | Noun | Motivating force.
Inducements | Noun | Influences or incentives.
Inferiority | Noun | Sense of feeling undervalued or being lesser or lower valued.
Irascible | Adjective | Easily angered.
Juvenile | Adjective | Not fully grown or developed; young.
Lustrous | Adjective | Gleaming with brilliant light.
Maneuvered | Verb | Shifted; moved.
Maturity | Noun | Time of being developed fully physically.
Menial | Adjective | Appropriate for a servant.
Permission | Noun | Consent or agreement for doing something.
Perplexing | Adjective | Troubling or confusing.
Plush | Adjective | Soft, thick fabric.
Pore | Verb | Read or study attentively.
Prism | Noun | Lens or medium that distorts slightly.
Refrained | Verb | Held back (stopped).
Remote | Adjective | Located far away; distant.
Shuddered | Verb | Shivered out of fear.
Taut | Adjective | Pulled or drawn tight with fear.
Tenement | Noun | Run-down, low rental apartment building.
Tenet | Noun | Belief or principle.
Triumph | Noun | A victory or win.
Vicinity | Noun | Nearby; in the general area of.
Voraciously | Adverb | Greedily, with an appetite that seemingly cannot be satisfied.