Junior Vocab. 22

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Junior Vocab. 2-2

• I know youre excited for new words, so here they
  are.

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holocaust impervious

• (n) a large-scale destruction, especially by
  fire a vast slaughter

• (adj) not affected or hurt by admitting of no
  passage or entrance

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impetus jeopardy

• (n) a moving force, impulse, stimulus

• (n) danger

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meticulous nostalgia

• (adj) extremely careful particular about details

• (n) a longing for something past homesickness

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quintessence retrogress

• (n) the purest essence of form of something
  the most typical example

• (v) to move backward to return to an earlier
  condition

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scrutinize tepid

• (v) to examine closely

• (adj) lukewarm, unenthusiastic, marked by an
  absence of interest