lesson 6 vocab

Abstruse

• Easy to understand
• Clear and straightforward
• Common knowledge
• Difficult to understand

alchemist

• someone to transform things for the better

• A scientist who studies plants.
• A person who creates potions.
• An artist who paints landscapes.

amenable

• eager to reject all advice
• indifferent to suggestions
• willing to accept or be influenced by suggestions
• unwilling to change one's mind

effervescent

• Bubbling or fizzy; lively.
• Calm or quiet; subdued.
• Bitter or sour; unappealing.
• Flat or still; dull.

gentility

• Refinement and social superiority.
• Rudeness and lack of education.
• A state of poverty and hardship.
• Social inferiority and lack of manners.

door or entrance

• gate
• window
• Portal

• fence

1. 1. a very steep or overhanging place

2. 2. a hazardous situation

• valley
• river
• mountain
• precipice

of or relating to the earliest ages

• modern
• recent
• futuristic
• primeval

marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity

• uninspired
• unproductive
• prolific
• mediocre

marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit

• Stalwart

• feeble
• weak
• fragile