Vocabulary

1. magnificent – Something magnificent is very beautiful and impressive.
2. insisted – If you insisted on something, you said it very firmly and you
refused to change your mind.
3. declared – Something that has been declared has been announced in a clear
way.
4. confidently – When you do something confidently, you are sure about what
you are doing.
5. distressed– Someone who is distressed feels very sad and helpless.
6. gloated – If someone gloated, he or she bragged about something in a mean
way.
7. anxiously – If you waited anxiously for something, you worried about how it
would turn out.