amass to gather things together, usually for pleasure of profit bravado a showy or false display of courage commiserate to feel or to express sorrow; to sympathize deter to prevent from doing or happening euphemism an inoffensive term substituted for an offensive term fledgling (n) 1. a yound bird just ready to fly 2. an inexperienced person (adj) young and inexperienced lavish (adj) 1. extravagant and abundant 2. excessively generous (v) to give generously and extravagantly menagerie a collection of animals on display occult of or dealing with magic or the supernatural peripheral of, near, or related to the outer edge or boundary profusion a great quantity or amount; an abundance recluse a person who lives a secluded, solitary life skittish nervously excitable tangible actual; real; capable of being perceived by the senses undulate to move in or cause to move in a wavelike motion Vocabulary Power Plus Book H