Xaniel Vocab 12

Adversity

• -lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward; may indicate reverence or submission

• -a cause of trouble

• -a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty

• -to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

Aesthetic

• -having to do with what is beautiful

• -something that is marginal or additional to some activity, process, or subject

• -(not in the rendezvous sense) ; fitting, appropriate

• -lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward; may indicate reverence or submission

Autumnal

• -a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty

• -marked by or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing; pompous, overblown

• -a prohibitory decree

• -of, characteristic of, or occurring in autumn

Bight

• -a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult

• -having to do with what is beautiful

• -a bend in a coast forming an open bay

• -to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

Bombastic

• -to move aimlessly from place to place

• -marked by or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing; pompous, overblown

• -something that brings disgrace; contempt, reproach

• -to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

Comeliness

• -the condition of being pleasing and wholesome in appearance

• -to move aimlessly from place to place

• -a cause of trouble

• prohibitory decree

Digress

• -to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

• -something that is marginal or additional to some activity, process, or subject

• -pedestrian; itinerant

• -a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty

Fastidious

• -relating to the river Styx; extremely dark, gloomy, o r forbidding

• -something that brings disgrace; contempt, reproach

• -a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult

• -having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please

Fringe

• -to move aimlessly from place to place

• -incapable of being satisfied

• -something that is marginal or additional to some activity, process, or subject

• -(not in the rendezvous sense) ; fitting, appropriate

Frugality

• -the quality of being prudent in the use of resources

• -pedestrian; itinerant

• -to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

• -marked by or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing; pompous, overblown