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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.
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Vocabulary Lesson 28 BY Ricardo Rivera Claudia Aliff Sebastian Morales
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.