Chapters 9 - 11 Flashcards
A plucked string instrument associated with Ancient Greece
Lyre
Born out of wedlock
Illegitimate
Someone who shows exceptional talent at an early age
Prodigy
A provable formula
Theorem
A go-between
Intermediary
Where you live
Residence
Really really big
Colossal
Show or portray
Depict
Grand, intimidating
Imposing
To collect a large amount of something over a period of time
Accumulate
Notable speaking ability
Eloquent
Discuss terms of an agreement
Negotiate
Very unfriendly
Hostile
Bad at doing something
Incompetent
A competitor
Contender
Sarcastic, say the opposite of truth for humor
Ironic
Humor based on opposites
Irony
Engaged
Betrothed
Dangerous,unstable, unsteady
Precarious
Interrupt progress of somebody or something (seize, capture)
Intercept
Cause something to fail through carelessness, bumbler
Bungler
Shock people by bad or improper behavior (shock, disgust)
Scandalized
Do something for reasons of strategy (plan, calculated, tactical)
Strategic
Very fast or brilliant (sudden, dramatic, spectacular)
Meteoric
Sudden and violent upheaval that causes great change (disaster, tragic)
Cataclysmic
Make someone furious
Infuriated
In name only not in reality
Nominally
Passed on by birth
Hereditary title
Choose not to have sex, like the priesthood
Celibate
Instigation
To get something started
Chancellor
Head of a goverment
Lieutenants
An army office
Armistice
A break in the fighting
Gullible
Easily fooled
Notary
Someone asking to be a lawyer
Militia
Sailors who are vilans
Hypocrisy
Someone who pretends to have values,fraud,phony Hyprocrite
Ecclesiastical
Involving the Christian Church
Squander
Use something waste fully
Balk
Hesitate,be unwilling to move,accept
Consequently
As A result
Strove
To try hard (Strive)
Casualties
Member of military,killed or injured out of combat
Indulgences
Paying money to cover sins
Condescending
To look down on,to behave toward others to show a way that shows you feel superior
Restoration
To restore something bring back how it was
Corrupt
Immoral dishonest advantage of a position of a power