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english midterm199
| Question | Answer | part of speech |
|---|---|---|
| Tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech | adj |
| Manse | house for the minister | noun |
| Capacious | being able to do something | adj |
| Convalescence | recovering of health after sickness | verb |
| Salient | moving by jumps and freely | adj |
| Commendable | praise worhty | adj |
| Entrench | to be in a trench | verb |
| Inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable | verb |
| Fey | able to see the future | adj |
| Lope | move in horse like gait | noun |
| Mordant | biting and caustic in thought | adj |
| Idiosyncratic | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality | noun |
| Listless | characterized by lack of interest | adj |
| infinitesimal | an infinitesimal quantity or variable | noun |
| Insinuate | to introduce (as an idea) gradually or in a subtle, indirect, or covert way | verb |
| Zestfully | an enjoyably exciting quality | adv |
| Poignance | painfully affecting the feelings | noun |
| Drab | dull | adj |
| Multifariously | many kinds various | adj |
| Austerity | cold in appearance or manner | adj |
| Torpidly | having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling | adv |
| Languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion | adj |
| Sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace | adj |