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Discover ways to find comfort and relief in challenging times through enchanting solace. Explore the alluring means to reduce stress and spread calm and peaceful energy in your life.
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Vocabulary 7 Using Synonyms
Alluring • Tempting, fascinating; desirable, irresistible, enchanting; attractive
Curtail • Reduce, diminish; restrict; cut short
Disdain • Scorn; dislike, hate, reject; look upon something with contempt or scorn
Flaunt • Show off; brag, boast, display, crow, gloat; display ostentatiously
Impetuous • Reckless; impulsive, abrupt; characterized by rash or sudden energy
Pervade • Spread throughout; infiltrate, fill up, cover; spread through every part of
Pestilent • Deadly; fatal, lethal, mortal; relating to serious and widespread illness or plague
Sedate • Calm; quiet, gentle, motionless, peaceful; calm or composed
Solace • Comfort, relief; something that gives comfort or relief
Stagnation • Motionless; staleness, inactivity; process of becoming foul or stale from lack of movement
Vocabulary 8 Greek Word Roots
Anachronism • Something out of its proper time period
Anthropomorphic • Resembling human form; attributing human form to something not human
Dehydration • Lessoning or absence of water; drying up
Euthanasia • A good death; a “mercy killing;” putting to death painlessly
Genealogy • Knowledge about one’s ancestors; study of family history and ancestors
Hierarchy • Ranking with most powerful at the top; a system ranking things in order
Hypodermic • Under the skin
Periphery • Around the outside; outer boundary
Psychopath • Person with a diseased mind; mentally ill person
Traumatic • Severely damaging; relating to a serious physical or psychological injury
Vocabulary 9 Word Families
Cognition • The act of thinking
Corpulent • Fat, obese
Dormant • Inactive; at rest
Elaborate • Detailed, complicated
Innovate • Make something new, introduce changes
Insoluble • Incapable of being solved or dissolved
Interrogation • A formal questioning session
Sentiment • Feeling or emotion
Sonorous • Rich and full of sound
Transcribe • Make an exact copy of