Vocabulary Unit 1 Definitions

What does the word "adjacent" mean?

• To pay back; to give a reward; a payment for loss, service, or injury

• Near, next to, adjoining

• Evil, bad; spiteful; having bad habit or an ugly disposition; painfully severe or extreme

• To get down from, step down from; to come down from the air, land; lighted up

What does the word "alight" mean?

• To pay back; to give a reward; a payment for loss, service, or injury

• Near, next to, adjoining

• To get down from, step down from; to come down from the air, land; lighted up

• To begin to grow, come into being

What does the word "barren" mean?

• Not productive, bare

• To break up, disturb

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "disrupt" mean?

• To pay back; to give a reward; a payment for loss, service, or injury

• To break up, disturb

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "dynasty" mean?

• A powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time

• To begin to grow, come into being

• A brief summary; a short written account of one’s education, working experience, or qualifications for a job

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "foretaste" mean?

• To pay back; to give a reward; a payment for loss, service, or injury

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• An advance indication, sample, or warning

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "germinate" mean?

• To begin to grow, come into being

• To break up, disturb

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "humdrum" mean?

• Ordinary, dull, routine, without variation

• To break up, disturb

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "hurtle" mean?

• To pay back; to give a reward; a payment for loss, service, or injury

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• To rush violently, dash headlong; to fling or hurt forcefully

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again

What does the word "insinuate" mean?

• To pay back; to give a reward; a payment for loss, service, or injury

• To suggest or hint slyly; to edge into something indirectly

• To rush violently, dash headlong; to fling or hurt forcefully

• To repair, restore to good condition, make new again