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Separate Peace set3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| listless | too tired or uninterested to want to do things |
| jounced | to move joltingly, bounce, roughly up and down syn: wiggle, bounce |
| Decalogue | a basic set of rules that must be obeyed syn: constitution, law |
| reverie | being lost or deep in thought syn: daydream, fantisize |
| idiosyncratic | characteristic, habit, or manner that is peculiar |
| emissiary | a person sent on a mission to represent another |
| prow | the bow of a ship |
| transfigure | changed in form or appearance |
| immersion | the state of being completely involved in something |
| transcend | to rise above or go beyond the limits of syn: exceed |
| infinitesimal | to small to be measurable |
| saline | consisting of salt |
| astride | with one leg on each side |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work |
| bantam | a small, feisty, quarrelsome perosn |
| sprig | a small shoot or twig especially with leaves or no flowers |
| automaton | a machine that can move by itself: a robot |
| goaded | to urge |
| dispensation | a system of rules for ordering affairs: release from a rule or a vow |
| menace | someone/something that represents a threat;danger |