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WRI Lesson 2

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Aborigines A person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times.
Accede Assent or agree to a demand, request, or treaty.
Amenities A desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.
Append Add something as an attachment or supplement.
Autonomy A country or region that has the right or condition of self-government.
Baleful Having a harmful or destructive effect.
Cataclysm A large-scale and violent event in the natural world.
Combustible Able to catch fire and burn easily.
Contentious Causing or likely to cause an argument.
Disaffected Dissatisfied with the people in authority and no longer willing to support them.
Disseminate Spread or disperse something widely.
Effrontery Rude behaviour.
Evanescent Soon passing out of sight; quickly fading or disappearing.
Grandiose Impressive or magnificent in appearance or style.
Indigent Poor; needy.
Irreproachable Beyond criticism; faultless.
Itinerant Traveling from place to place.
Quixotic Unrealistic and impractical.
Tawdry Showy but cheap and of poor quality.
Corrugated A material, surface, or structure shaped into alternate ridges and grooves.
Created by: LindsMoulaison
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