Vocabulary

Accentuate to bring out or highlight

Auspicious when things look like they will go well.

Aspire to want to achieve something

Apprehensive hesitant, anxious, not wanting to do something.

Boycott to stop supporting something.

Chronology arranging events/ dates in the order they happened in.

Concoction a mix of a bunch of things

Conspicuous clearly visible

Diminish to make or become less

Disdain to feel someone/ something is unworthy of respect

Eclectic having ides, style or taste from a range of sources

Exception when someone/something does not need to follow the rule.

Egregious shocking and bad

Fallacy a mistaken belief

Falter to pause or lose speed

Flourish to do well or succeed

Impending something about to happen

Hypocrisy pretending to be upset about something when they do it all the time

Impertinent not showing respect, rude.

Irrelevant not connected to anything, does not matter

Jargon special vocabulary used by a professional group that is hard to understand.

Meticulous showing attention to detail.

Monotonous boring and repetitive.

Multitude a large number of things/ people.

Nuisance a person or thing causing problems

Ominous the feeling that something bad will happen

Outlandish something strange or bizarre

Precipice a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one

Pertinent important or relevant

Quandary uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.

quell to stop or put an end to

Recede to go back

Recuperate to recover

Scarcity something not being around too much.

Subside to become less, or lower.

Sombre to be sad, or to not be colourful or bright

Uncanny strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

Unanimous in full agreement

Voracious wanting or devouring large amounts

Versatile to have many different uses.

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