vocabulary lesson 28
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Vocabulary Lesson 28. BY Ricardo Rivera Claudia Aliff Sebastian Morales. Quirk. An odd or particular habit. amulet. S omething worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil. fatalism. A doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BY Ricardo Rivera Claudia Aliff Sebastian Morales
VOCABULARY LESSON 28
QUIRK• An odd or particular habit
AMULET• Something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil
FATALISM• A doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to
change them.
ALCHEMY A medieval chemical art, science, and speculative philosophy
VAGARY• An erratic, unpredictable whim, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion
PROVIDENTIAL• Fortunate, lucky, and advantageous
PROPITIOUS• favorably disposed
• being a good omen
• tending to favor
CAPRICIOUS• governed or characterized by caprice impulsive, unpredictable
SERENDIPITY• An lucky, accidental occurrence
He found that town through pure chance! Good thing too, because he as starving.
VICISSITUDE• Change of state, usually to a worse one.