Unit 1 Vocabulary

to flow or fall by drops or in a small stream

• trivial

• trickle

• hurtle

• truce

to break up, disturb

• barren

• dynasty

• germinate

• disrupt

a payment for loss, service, or injury

• recompense

• foretaste

• renovate

• resume

endless, so long as to seem endless

• interrogate

• humdrum

• interminable

• germinate

ordinary, dull, routine, without variation

• hurtle

• foretaste

• sullen

• humdrum

a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time

• barren

• dynasty

• foretaste

• truce

near, next to, adjoining

• recompense

• interrogate

• adjacent

• alight

to repair, restore to good condition, make new again

• resume

• insinuate

• germinate

• renovate

to get down from, step down from; to come down from the air, land

• disrupt

• alight

• hurtle

• adjacent

silent or brooding because of ill humor, anger, or resentment; slow moving, sluggish

• humdrum

• interminable

• vicious

• sullen