Vocabulary

• susceptible: Likely to fall prey to, be drawn to or influenced
• odor: A certain smell, often strong or distinct
• diminish: To make something smaller or less important
• facilitate: To make an action or process easier
• starch: Substance in food changed to energy in the body
• potent: (Of men) being able to make a woman pregnant
• delicacy: Something pleasing because of its good taste
• mandate: To order that something is done
• exhale: To breathe out the air or smoke in your lungs
• excel: To perform an activity better than others
• deficiency: Lack of something that is necessary
• compliance: Act of obeying a law, etc.
• palate: Roof of the mouth
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• celery: Long hard thin green vegetable
• pagan: People who do not have a formal religion
• respiration: Taking air in and out of the lungs; breathing
• sovereign: King, queen, emperor etc. of a country
• loneliness: State of feeling sad because you are alone
• penetrate: To enter or pass through something
• fortress: Military buildings providing protection
• compel: To force someone to do something
• illuminate: To supply light to something
• predicament: Difficult situation that is hard to get out of
• nitrogen: A colorless chemical element without a smell
• prodigy: Young person who is amazingly talented
• detergent: Synthetic liquid or powder used to wash something
• swarm: Large group of flying insects moving together
• minimize: To make something seem small or less important
• compose: To calm yourself after being angry or upset
• portuguese: Concerning the culture and people of Portugal
• demolish: To destroy completely (e.g. an idea, a building)
• cooperate: To work together with, to assist someone
• discard: To take a card out of your hand in a card game
• chirp: To make a sharp sound like an insect, bird
• cathedral: Large impressive main church in a particular area
• installment: One of many payments you have to make
• propulsion: Forward movement often under power
• rosy: Pink or red in color, as from being healthy
• dandelion: A common weed with bright-yellow flowers
• rind: Tough, outer skin of orange, lemon etc.
• giraffe: Tall African animal with very long neck and legs
• inaccessible: Difficult or impossible to get or get into
• cessation: The stopping of an activity
• peacock: Bird with colorful long feathers
• sparrow: Small, very common bird with gray brown feathers
• continual: Happening all the time; never-ending
• slander: Words falsely spoken that damage a reputation
• lattice: Openwork structure of crossed strips of wood, etc.
• flask: Narrow-necked drink container
• disbelief: Feeling that something cannot be real or true
• imaginable: Able to be imagined; possible
• sturgeon: Large primitive fish valued for its flesh
• crochet: To create by looping with special small hook
• dane: Person from Denmark
• clang: To make or cause a loud ringing sound from a bell
• swede: Person from Sweden
• sanctify: To make holy, or with holy or official approval