Valuable Words that Begin with Vowels
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Consonant Cascade
Past Units
Rock Star Vocabulary
100
To make or make appear great or greater
What is aggrandize?
100
Define recumbent
What is to recline or lie down?
100
Effected by force used against resistance
What is forcible?
100
Specific knowledge needed to understand something
What is esoteric?
100
Define imperative
What is absolutely necessary or required?
200
Lacking in harmony
What is incongruous?
200
Define the act of gratifying or yielding to a wish
What is indulgence?
200
Irrational through illness; excited
What is delirious?
200
Define goad
What is anything that acts with a spur or incitement?
200
What word in literature means providing a preview of what is to come?
What is foreshadowing?
300
The act of gratifying or yielding to a wish
What is indulgence?
300
Define extirpate
What is to eradicate or destroy?
300
A deserted or abandoned child
What is foundling?
300
accommodation
What is adjustment of differences?
300
Define semantics
What is the study of the meaning in language?
400
To make calm, or to grow better
What is ameliorate?
400
Define aggrandize
What is to make or make appear great or greater?
400
To make gestures or motions
What is gesticulate?
400
cocked
What is a tilt of the head or readiness of a gun?
400
Name for a long short story or narrative, usually between 50 and 100 pages long
What is a novella?
500
To eradicate; to destroy
What is extirpate?
500
Define Woolgathering
What is to indulge in idle daydreaming?
500
Resisting control; stubborn
What is restive?
500
A cutting or sneering remark
What is sarcasm?
500
Define satire and provide an example
What is literature that makes fun of social conditions to evoke change or shock?
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