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Anne Frank Act 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| StandStill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress |
| Hymn | a song of praise to God |
| Inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| Advisability | fit to be advised or done |
| Lordship | the rank or dignity of a lord |
| Intimate | to communicate delicately and indirectly |
| Embroidery | the art or process of forming decorative designs with hand or machine needlework |
| Meticulously | marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
| Intuition | immediate apprehension or cognition |
| Gauntlet | a glove worn with medieval armor to protect the hand |
| Convulsive | caused by or affected with convulsions |
| Orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |
| Contribute | to give or supply in common with others |
| Toscanini | conductor |
| Ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect |
| Carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| Disgruntled | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| Apprehension | the act or power of perceiving or comprehending |
| Halfheartedly | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| Forlorn | sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion |
| Ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| Vague | not clearly expressed : stated in indefinite terms |
| Stealthily | slow, deliberate, and secret in action or character |
| Indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| Chrysanthemums | any of various composite plants (genus Chrysanthemum) including weeds, ornamentals grown for their brightly colored often double flower heads, and others important as sources of medicinals and insecticides |
| Purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification; specifically : a place or state of punishment wherein according to Roman Catholic doctrine the souls of those who die in God's grace may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for h |
| Muffled | to wrap up so as to conceal or protect |
| Onslaught | an especially fierce attack; also : something resembling such an attack |
| Indignant | feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy |
| Inferiority | an acute sense of personal inferiority often resulting either in timidity or through overcompensation in exaggerated aggressiveness |
| Hysterical | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions |
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