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Unit 1 Fiction
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Word | Definition |
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encroaching | intruding or moving into |
commemorates | honors a memory |
extricating | setting free, removing |
constricting | preventing freedom of movement; limiting |
perpetually | continuing forever, never ending, constantly |
tentative | hesitant, not confident |
grave | very serious and worrying |
furtively | secretively, sneakily, stealthily |
maligned | spoken ill of |
apathy | lack of interest or emotion |
credulity | tendency to believe to easily |
oppressive | causing great discomfort or distressing |
peril/perilous | dangers; dangerous |
fusillade | a massive outpouring |
rubicund | red colored |
pretense | pretending, or creating a false show of something |
candid | honest |
lofty | elevated in character, noble |
detestable | deserving hate or scorn, offensive |
subdued | quiet, lacking energy |
edifying | instructive in a way as to improve morally or intellectually |
taciturn | silent |
tremor | shaking |
cowardice | lack of bravery |
prejudice | harm that results from an unfair action or judgment |
tempering | changing to make more suitable |
ingratiating | acting in a way to gain someone's favor |
scrutinized | examined carefully |
convoluted | twisted in a complicated way |
reveling | taking great pleasure or delight, having fun |
interminable | endless or seemingly endless |