Academic Vocabulary Definitions 3/24/23

incredulous

• unwilling to believe; suspicious

• unusual

• far

• fear or overpowering

odd

• something that proves a belief or proof

• enourmous

• sad

• unusual or strange; abnormal

strident

• to strengthen

• unpleasantly forceful; harsh

• endless

• accurate

sympathy

• not clear; indefinite

• face; apperance

• caring; compassion

• begging; pleading

dissolve

• harsh

• to incorporate a solid into a liquid; to give into something uncontrollably

desperate

• based on instinct

• driven to or produced by hopelessness; frantic

• having a sharp effect

• fear

panic

• represent

• sudden, overpowering fear; terror

• having a sharp or severe effect

• join together

based on instinct; involuntary

• instinctive

• sympathy

• odd

• imploring

begging, pleading

• instinctive

• odd

• desperate

• imploring

acute

• having a sharp or severe effect; intense

• involuntary

• outstanding. extraordinary

• knowledge; awareness of things