American Lit Vocab-Week 7

Magnanimous

• generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.
• (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.
• too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
• bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them.

Presumptuous

• (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.

• a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.

• swollen and distended or congested.

• cause distress to.

Formidable

• inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
• bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them.
• no longer existing or functioning.
• a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.

Harrowed

• cause distress to.
• too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
• inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
• (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.

Defunct

• no longer existing or functioning.
• generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.
• in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
• too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

Ineffable

• too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
• in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
• generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.
• swollen and distended or congested.

Nebulous

• in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
• inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
• cause distress to.
• no longer existing or functioning.

Vestige

• a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.

• no longer existing or functioning.

• bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them.

• inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.

Turgid

• swollen and distended or congested.
• cause distress to.
• a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
• in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.

Ingratiate

• bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them.

• swollen and distended or congested.

• (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.

• generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.