Vocabulary

 Rampant: Unrestrained and violent

 Impetus: A force that moves something along
 Rejuvenate: Regenerate
 Machination: A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
 Impoverished: Poor enough to need help from others
 Meager: Deficient in amount, quality or extent
 Protracted: Relatively long in duration
 Waned: Decline
 Echelon: A level or rank in an organization
 Dictates: A guiding principle
 Discontent: Make dissatisfied
 Engender: Give rise to
 Outset: The time when something begins
 Rudimentary: Being in the earliest stages of development
 Prowess: A superior skill or Art
 Irrevocable: Incapable of being retracted or revoked
 Morphed: Changed
 Marred: rough wear
 Scourge: Curse
 Stifling: Forceful prevention
 Flaunted: Display proudly
 Lax: Lacking in rigor or strictness
 Menace: Something that is a source of danger
 Bracing: Energizing
 Arduous: Difficult to accomplish
 Languid: Lacking spirit
 Manifest: Evidence, Demonstrates
 Insuperable: Unconquerable
 Vitality: An energetic style
 Vigor: Energy
 Intermittent: Stopping and starting at irregular intervals
 Inimical: Not friendly
 Denuding: Remove or clear away
 Usurped: Seized or took over
 Impinge: Have a negative effect on
 Pragmatic: Concerned with practical matters
 Impediments: Any structure that makes progress difficult
 Wrangling: An instance of intense argument
 Proverbial: Known
 Confectioner: Candy maker
 Resentment: Bitterness
 Instinctive: Natural
 Confounded: Puzzled
 Swayed: Move back and forth
 Inarticulate: Unable to express one’s idea
 Petrified: Change into stone
 Glistened: Shiny as if wet
 Quivered: Shake with fast
 Panted: Breathe noisily
 Incessant: Continuing forever
 Tumultuous: Disruptive
 Fungoid: Resembling fungi
 Dread: Be afraid of
 Tedious: To long slow
 Contemporary: Present day
 Realm: Kingdom
 Morality: Ethics
 Machiavellianism: Autocracy
 Inexorable: Impossible to stop or prevent
 Inundating: Flooding
 Augmented: Increased
 Imperialism: Policy of extending a nation’s rule over foreign nation
 Remnant: Left over
 Pastoral: Relating to shepherds
 Subjugation: Conquering
 Contagiously: Spread from one person to another
 Accentuated: Emphasized, Stressed
 Bequeathed: Left
 Inherent: Integral