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Eng 10 Vocab 11
"Improving" vocab Ch 11
Term | Definition |
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Gaunt | thin and bony |
Immaculate | perfectly clean |
Blatant | very obvious, often offensively so |
Retaliate | to return an injury for an injury; pay back |
Contrive | to plan cleverly; think up |
Plagiarism | using someone else's writings or ideas as one's own; a form of intellectual theft |
Blight | something that weakens, damages or destroys |
Gloat | to feel or express delight or self-satisfaction, often spitefully |
Garble | To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); to scramble; bad cell-phone reception leads to messages that are ___ (ed). |
Qualm | an uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is |