Wordly Wise 9: Lesson 2

Wordly Wise 9: Lesson 2

alacrity

• (noun) promptness in responding

• eagerness

array

• (noun) a large group of people or things

• an orderly arrangement or display

• (verb) to place in order

• to dress up

deduce

• (verb) to draw a conclusion from given facts

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encumber

• (verb) to weigh down or burden

• to impede the action of

fraught

• (adj) full of or accompanied by (usually followed by with)

• haphazard

• (adj) marked by lack of plan, order or direction

haphazard

• (adj) Marked by lack of plan, order, or direction

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incontrovertible

• (adj) impossible to dispute, unquestionable

inexplicable

• (adj) hard to explain or impossible to solve

ingenious

• marked by imagination, resourcefulness, or cleverness

laggard

• (noun) one who falls behind others because of moving slowly or loitering, a straggle

torrid

• intensely hot and dry

• burning with passion

traverse (verb)

• to pass over, across or through

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ubiquitous (adj)

• zenith

• appearing to be present in large numbers or in many different

zenith (noun)

• the highest point, the peak

• the point in the sky directly above the observer