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.