Vocabulary 20-23

cynical

• believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• a group of islands

• unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution

melodramatic

• broken or separated into distinct parts

• being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

• to fall, pour, or rush in or as if in a cascade

dissent

• so great as to cause one to stagger

• the act or process or emancipating

• the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held

• a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together

idyllic

• showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless /unresisting beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty

• convey pollen to or deposit pollen on and so allow fertilization

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

staggering

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• so great as to cause one to stagger

• the act or process of emancipating

• broken or separated into distinct parts

cascading

• convey pollen to or deposit pollen on and so allow fertilization

• being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional

• to fall, pour, or rush in or as if in a cascade

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

audacious

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless / unresisting beings under circumstances of atrocity / cruelty

• a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together

• the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held

• showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect

archipelago

• a group of islands

• the act or process of emancipating

• the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem

• believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest

massacre

• the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held

• a group of islands

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless / unresisting beings under circumstances of atrocity / cruelty

• the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem

emancipation

• convey pollen to or deposit pollen on and so allow fertilization

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect

• the act or process of emancipating