| A | B |
|---|
| advocate | one that supports or promotes the interests of another |
| agony | Severe mental or physical |
| agrarian | farming |
| alliance | emerging of efforts or interests by families, groups, countries, etc. |
| apparition | Ghost, phantom |
| aspiration | Hope or ambition of achieving something |
| atrocious | Extremely or shockingly wicked |
| beneficiaries | one that benefits from something |
| cataclysmic | Disaster |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| complacent | marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies : marked by complacency; no reaction/not feeling sorry |
| conflagration | a destructive fire |
| construed | understood, interpreted |
| dearth | Shortage, scarcity |
| debilitating | To sap the strength or energy of; enervate. |
| deteriorating | to become impaired in quality, functioning, or condition |
| dilemma | Choice between two unsatisfactory alternatives; problem that appears unsolvable; always has 2 negative outcomes |
| ebullient | having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm |
| emulating | imitate; to strive to equal or excel |
| enact | to make (as a bill) into law |
| entrepreneur | a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk |
| euphemistic | Using gentle, mild words instead of harsh words to describe something |
| facilitate | to make easier or less difficult; help something run smoothly |
| figment | Something made up; something created in the mind but not real |
| formulated | Something worked out in one’s mind |
| gaudiest | Showy or tasteless in a vulgar |
| genocide | Killing of a racial or cultural group |
| heterochromatic | Having different colors |
| heteromorphic | Having different forms |
| idealism | Cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principle, goals, etc. |
| impenitent | Not feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; someone who doesn’t repent of sin; rude, nasty, feel o remorse |
| irrevocable | cannot be revoked or undone |
| languish | to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade |
| laud | praise |
| legacy | anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor |
| liberty | freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint |
| lucrative | profitable |
| macrocosm | Large world, universe, great world |
| mercenary | Concerned primarily with money (example: typically someone who will break the law for money; a hired soldier) |
| meticulous | taking or showing extreme care about minute details |
| microcosm | Little world |
| misrepresented | Not giving truthful information; false |
| myriad | a great number |
| nefarious | Very wicket, vicious |
| omnipotent | All-powerful, almighty, having unlimited power |
| omniscient | Knowing everything, knowing all |
| oppression | the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner |
| ostracized | Thrown out from society or some group, banished |
| paralysis | complete or partial loss of function especially when involving the motion or sensation in a part of the body; a state of powerlessness or incapacity to act |
| paranoia | a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others |
| pariah | An outcast, a person despised or rejected by society |
| philanthropy | altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons |
| plagiarism | Copying without giving credit |
| premonition | Forewarning, prior knowledge of a forthcoming event |
| procrastinator | One who puts off doing things because of laziness or irresponsibility |
| regicide | The killing of a king; the killer of a king |
| regress | Move backwards |
| remiss | Negligent in performing one’s duty, careless |
| repentant | Feeling regret for wrongdoing; asking for forgiveness/sorry for wrongdoing |
| repercussions | a widespread, indirect, or unforeseen effect of something |
| reverberate | to continue in or as if in a series of echoes: resound |
| smoldering | To burn without flame; to continue to cause problems |
| statute | law |
| stealth learning | students are having fun picking up facts about things they're interested in. But at the same time they're actually learning basic principles |
| summer slide | decline in knowledge due to no learning activities during summer |
| The Flapper | Young women from 1920s who showed disdain (hatred) for typical dress and behavior |
| unaided | Not providing support; completing without |
| unheeded | Noticed or heard but disregarded |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| victimizer | the person who hurts someone (the bully in this case) |
| vindictive | wanting revenge |
| vitality | Physical or mental strength |
| scandalist | a person who does something horrible |
| murky | unclear or gloomy |
