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Vocabulary Accelerator Unit 2 Definitions
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| acquiesce | to consent, comply, agree without protest |
| amorous | affectionate, related to love or romance |
| aroma | a fragrant, pleasing, or characteristic scent |
| awkward (1) | clumsy, or difficult to handle |
| consummate (verb) | to bring to completion, achieve |
| converse (adj) | reversed, opposite, contrary |
| deleterious | harmful, having the effect of an injury |
| delirium | temporary mental confusion resulting from intoxication or fever and marked by anxiety, hallucinations |
| ecstasy | intense joy, rapture, bliss, great delight |
| enamored | in love with, smitten, captivated, fond of |
| futile (adj) | useless, profitless, completely ineffective |
| incantation | a spoken spell or magic charm |
| inevitable | certain, unavoidable |
| infatuation | an obsession or fixation |
| inimitable | unique, unmatched, peerless, not able to be imitated |
| interminable | endless, tediously, or tiresomely. |
| intuit | to know instinctively, to know without experience |
| intuition | knowledge without evidence, a sense |
| laborious | demanding hard work, care, hardworking, industrious, painstaking |
| laboriously | of or with hard work or care |
| proximity | nearness, closeness, adjacency, immediacy |
| reticent | quiet, tight-lipped, taciturn, reserved or restrained in manner, reluctant, unwilling |
| reticence | likelihood toward being silent or keeping feelings to oneself, reluctance, unwillingness |
| senescent | aging, growing old, decaying over time |
| shroud (noun) | something that covers, wraps, hides, or screens; a funeral cloth wrapped around a corpse |
| shroud (verb) | to cover, wrap, hide, or screen; to wrap a corpse in a funeral cloth |
| situation | a state of affairs, position, or circumstances; a predicament or remarkable set of circumstances |
| situation | a job, post |
| synchronous | existing or happening at the same time or rate, simultaneous, concurrent, contemporary |
| synchronously | simultaneously |
| synchronism, synchrony, synchronicity | an occurence at the same time, simultaneousness |
| tortuous | winding, twisting, crooked, circuitous, labyrinthine, sinous, complicated, devious |
| tranquility | a state of peace, quiet, calm or serenity |
| tranquil | peaceful, quiet |
| acquiescence | agreement or compliance |
| aromatic | having a pleasing scent |
| awkward (2) | marked by or causing embarrassment or discomfort |
| consummate (adj) | complete in every way, perfect, exemplar |
| converse (verb) | to exhange words, ideas, or feelings |
| conversely | from the opposite perspective |
| delirious | frantic, raving |
| ecstatic | joyful |
| futile (noun) | uselessness |
| inevitably | certainly, predictably |
| inimitably | uniquely |
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