Great Fire Vocab
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- Unrelenting
- Adj, not letting up, or weakening in vigor or pace, - lent, slack, loose
- Cumbersome
- adj, burdensome, slow, inefficient - cumb, lie down, recline
- Copiously
- Adv., having the characteristics of being present in large quantity or of yielding something abundantly - copi, abundance
- Conflagration
- N, a large, disastrous fire - flagr, burn
- Solicitude
- N., A cause of anxiety or concern or attentive care amd protectiveness as for the well-being of another - solicit, agitate, urge
- Assumption
- N., a fact or statement taken for granted or accepted as true without proof. Sumpt, take.
- Speculate
- V., to think abotu the various aspects of a given subject, meditate, ponder. Specul, watchtower.
- Incredulity
- N., unwillingness or inability to believe, doubt, skepticism. Cred, believe.
- Melodramatic
- Adj., characteric of any sensational, extravagantly emotional action, utterance, etc. Melo, song. Dra, perform.
- Vie
- V., to sruggle for superiority (with someone) or to enter into competition (for something); compete. Vi, way, road
- Simile
- N., a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another dissimilar thing by use of like or as. Simil, like.
- Metaphor
- N., a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or a phrase ordinarily and primarily used for one thing is applied to another. phor, bringing.
- Ventured
- V., to undertake the rick of; brave (to venture in a storm). Vent, come.
- Melee
- N., a noisy confused fight or hand-to-hand struggle among a number of people.
- Impinging
- V., to strike, hit, or dash (on, upon, or against something); to touch. Ping, fasten.