Nikkel's Vocab

Goad
1. Part of Speech: Verb
2. Description: To provoke.
3. Related Words: prod, drive, and stimulate.
4. She goaded the cattle with a stick.
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Capricious
1. Part of Speech: Adjective
2. Description: Spontaneous or unpredictable.
3. Related Words: variable, unpredictable, constant
4. The weather is capricious in the winter.
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Obviate
1. Part of Speech: Verb
2. Description: to anticipate and prevent
3. Related Words: preclude, avert, and counteract
4. The kid obviated the accident by paying attention to the road.
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Malady
1. Part of Speech: Noun
2. Description: A disease, germ, or sickness.
3. Related words: Sickness, affliction, and healthy.
4. The malady was making everybody sick.
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Felicity
1. Part of Speech: Noun
2. Definition: To be content or happy
3. Related Words: joy, happiness, and pleasure.
4. Everyone should be filled with felicity at this time of year.
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Tyler Vocab

Providentially (Adverb)
-Someone who is very fortunate or lucky.
-(Syn) happily, swimmingly, well.
-Steve seemed to be providential after making the winning shot in the championship game.
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Perdition(Noun)
-Total destruction, or total loss of something
-(Syn) damnation, pit, affliciton.
-The perdition of the war was devastating to us.
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Sarcastic(Adj)
-Expressing negative and critical thoughts and actions to another person.
-(syn) arrogant, mean, mocking
-He replied sarcastically to Jim's statement.
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Sardonic(Adj)
-Mocking, or being very mean to someone.
-(syn)- bitter, cynical, taunting
-He was sardonic and hurtful to the new kid at school.
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Solipsistic(Adj)
-Being very indulged in ones thoughts, feeling, dreams, hopes, and desires.
-(syn) self centered, cocky, arrogant.
-He was very solipsistic when talking about his old football days.
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