BY Ricardo Rivera Claudia Aliff Sebastian Morales

VOCABULARY LESSON 28

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.