5th box -Flashcards

(adj.) easily intelligible, clear (Wishing his book to be pellucid to the common man, Albert Camus avoided using complicated grammar when composing The Stranger.)

(adj.) unlucky (My poor, hapless family never seems to pick a sunny week to go on vacation.)

(v.) to improve (The tense situation was ameliorated when Sam proposed a solution everyone could agree upon.)

(n.) a mark or trace of something lost or vanished (Do you know if the Mexican tortilla is a vestige of some form of Aztec corn-based flat bread?)