amiable friendly and likeable baleful sinister; threatening criterion a standard on which decisions can be based; a basis for comparison devoid completely lacking; empty dormant inactive as though asleep eulogy an admiring speech or written tribute, usually for someone who has died iconoclast a person who attacks and seeks to destroy popular ideas or traditions instigate to provoke marginal barely meeting the lowest standard; of minimal quality peerless without equal; matchless prone 1. lying face down 2. having a tendency repel to drive away; to ward off serene very calm; untroubled tactless careless about the feelings of others; rude unfathomable difficult or impossible to understand Vocabulary Power Plus Book H
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