Vocabulary Unit One

Adjacent

• (adj.) not important, minor; ordinary, commonplace
• near, next to, adjoining
• (v) to pay back; to give a reward; (n) a payment for loss, service, or injury.
• to suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

Alight

• to repair, restore to good condition, make new again
• (v.) to get down from, step down from; to come down from the air, land; (adj.) lighted up
• (v) to pay back; to give a reward; (n) a payment for loss, service, or injury.
• (v.) to rush violently, dash headlong; to fling or hurl forcefully

Barren

• not productive, bare
• a pause in fighting, temporary peace
• an advance indication, sample, or warning
• (adj.) evil, bad; spiteful; having bad habits or an ugly disposition; painfully severe or extreme

Disrupt

• (n.) a brief summary; a short written account of one's education, working experience, or qualifications for a job
• (v.) to rush violently, dash headlong; to fling or hurl forcefully
• an advance indication, sample, or warning
• to break up, disturb

Dynasty

• (n.) a brief summary; a short written account of one's education, working experience, or qualifications for a job
• (v.) to flow or fall by drops or in a small stream; (n.) a small, irregular quantity of anything
• to ask questions, examine by questioning
• a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time

Foretaste

• (adj.) evil, bad; spiteful; having bad habits or an ugly disposition; painfully severe or extreme
• (v) to pay back; to give a reward; (n) a payment for loss, service, or injury.
• a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time
• an advance indication, sample, or warning

Germinate

• to break up, disturb
• to repair, restore to good condition, make new again
• to begin to grow, come into being
• ordinary, dull, routine, without variation

Humdrum

• (adj.) not important, minor; ordinary, commonplace
• a pause in fighting, temporary peace
• near, next to, adjoining
• ordinary, dull, routine, without variation

Hurtle

• a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time
• near, next to, adjoining
• to suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly
• (v.) to rush violently, dash headlong; to fling or hurl forcefully

Insinuate

• (adj.) not important, minor; ordinary, commonplace
• ordinary, dull, routine, without variation
• to suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly
• (n.) a brief summary; a short written account of one's education, working experience, or qualifications for a job