Writing Vocabulary 2
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- feeble
- lacking physical strength
- convalescence
- gradual healing
- contentious
- argumentative; quarrelsome
- bleakly
- dreary
- loomed
- coming into view
- sedate
- somber in manner
- specters
- ghosts
- tacit
- understood or implied without being stated openly
- nondescript
- lacking features
- abstracted
- lost in thought
- anguish
- strong feeling or misery
- chronic
- being long-lasting
- conventional
- conforming to accepted standards; traditional
- compelling
- forceful; demanding
- encroach
- to trespass, intrude
- formidable
- hard to do; overcome
- grave
- very important
- inane
- silly; foolish
- indulgent
- inclined to give in easily
- insidious
- intending to trick, lie, or trap
- inured
- become accustomed to something painful or difficult
- novel
- very new
- prevail
- win out; be greater in strength
- venerable
- profoundly honored; worthy of respect due to age
- verbose
- using an excessive # of words
- conformity
- accepting standards
- eloquent
- stirring in speech
- exhort
- to strongly urge
- gullible
- naive; easily tricked
- idosyncratic
- have a peculiar characteristic or mannerism
- immersion
- wetting by submerging it
- implausibility
- unlikeliness; unbelievablilty
- incoherent
- unclear or difficult to understand
- indignant
- angry; unfair or wrong
- infinitesimal
- infinitely
- inveigle
- evil; trickery
- invoke
- call forth
- opulent
- rich and superior
- preeminent
- superior to others
- rhetorical
- question without expecting an answer
- sinecure
- position that requires little of no work
- sultryness
- humidity; heat
- transcendence
- being or existence above or beyond; materials experience
- culminating
- ending
- implauisbility
- unlikeliness; unbelievablilty