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Vocab chp 8-12
Question | Answer |
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uncontrolled extreme emotion | hysterical |
tie or hold the legs or arms of someone | pinion |
the very early stages in the development of something | primitave |
gloomy and solem | somber |
giving greater knowledge or understanding | enlightened |
To utterly destroy or defeat | Annihilate |
Giving impression that something bad is going to happen | Ominous |
To get out; to originate from; to be produced by | Emanate |
The tendency to arrive pleasure from inflicting pain | Sadist |
To the depart from the usual or accepted standard | Deviate |
allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen; having thoughts, feelings, or motives that are easily perceived | transparent |
unexpectedly experience or be faced with | encountering |
to make a series of low, feeble sounds expressive of fear, pain, or discontent | whimpering |
giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen | sinister |
relating to or denoting beings supposedly from other worlds; extraterrestrial | alien |
impossible to stop or prevent | inexorable |
impossible to pass through or enter | impenetrable |
clear and definite; real | tangible |
the complete loss or absence of hope | despair |
the quality of having unlimited or very great power | omnipotent |
Hatred | Loathing |
Unable to be noticed with the five senses | Imperceptible |
Impression; dent | Indentation |
Destructive | Corrosive |
Taken in; eaten up | Devoured |
Inside-out | Inverted |
Soothe; relieve | Assuage |
Little and weak | Puny |
Unreliable; subject to failure | Fallible |
Break apart; crumble | Disintegration |
In low spirits because of a loss of hope or courage | Despondent |
A person's knowledge or experience of something; a person one knows slightly | Acquaintance |
Put someone or something in a position of danger or loss | Jeopardize |
Not able to be seen through; not transparent | Opaque |
Inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable | Perplexity |
Having a sharply strong taste or smell | Pungent |
Act against something in order to reduce its force or neutralize it | Counteract |
A possibility | Alternative |
A slender limb of an animal usually around the mouth area | Tentacle |
A feeling of fear or agitation that something may happen | Trepidation |
Frightfully | Appallingly |
Hard to overcome | Formidably |
To win, dominate | Prevail |
In union with | League |
Sink in | Permeating |
Deadly | Fatal |
Pure; uncorrupted | Unadulterated |
Song like poem | Sonnet |
Remains | Vestige |
Confuse | Confound |