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Vocabulary Week 2 Gold

Explore the depths of meanings with words like benevolent, consume, and elusive. Discover the power of charisma and the allure of the ambiguous. Embrace epiphanies and navigate through the cluster of ideas.

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Vocabulary Week 2 Gold

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  1. Vocabulary Week 2 Gold

  2. Word 1: AmbiguousDef: Unclear because it has more than one meaning Sent: However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power. Gloria Steinem Young &Old lady

  3. Word 2: BenevolentDef: Generous, Willing to help othersSent: And thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas jefferson

  4. Word 3: ConsumeDef: To eat or use upSent: Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.Mickey Spillane

  5. Word 4: DauntingDef: Worried about something because it is difficult to achieveSent: Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. James Merrill

  6. Word 5: ElusiveDef: Difficult to catch or achieveSent: It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.Lao Tzu (on leadership)

  7. Word 6: Fanatic / FanaticalDef: Irrational or over enthusiastic about a religious idea, political belief, sport etcSent: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. Bernard Russell

  8. Word 7: AdversaryDef:Someone you are fighting or competing againstSent: Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.Samuel Adams

  9. Word 8: CharismaDef: Personality that people like and are attracted to Sent: Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. Peter Drucker

  10. Word 9:InfallibleDef:Certain to work as intended, not capable of making mistakesSent: The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.Henry Kissinger

  11. Word 10: ImpedeDef: To make more difficultSent: The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.George Wills

  12. Word 11:Epiphany Def: A sudden realization or great idea Sent: An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. Nick Cave

  13. Word 12: Irrelevant Def: Not important to what is being done or discussed Sent: Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.Warren Earl Burger

  14. Word 13: Prolific Def:Producing in large numbersSent: Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  15. Word 14: Lucrative Def:Very profitableSent: To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.Thomas Paine

  16. Word 15: QuandaryDef: State of uncertainty where it is hard to decide Sent: “We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future.” Barbara Jordan

  17. Word 16: ThriveDef: To be successful and growSent: Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion.

  18. Word 17: ZanyDef: Strange in a funny waySent: …then I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends. Jim Carrey

  19. Word 18: AnarchyDef: A state of chaos where there is no government or social control Sent:Anarchyis anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.Thurgood Marshall

  20. Word 19: BogusDef: Made up, not real factsSent: All you need to do is set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent off.. Kevin Mitnick

  21. Word 20: ClusterDef: Things that are closely grouped togetherSent: The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.Ezra Pound

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