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lesson 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adequate-adj. | good enough for the situation |
| agony-n | great pain of body or mind agonizing-adj. |
| audible-adj, | heard or capable of being heard auditory-adj. |
| brawny-adj. | muscular;strong |
| cantankerous-adj. | never agreeable; difficult to deal with |
| decade-n | a ten-year span |
| exquisite-adj. | 1.extremely lovely;delicately beautiful 2.highly admirable; excellent |
| ferocious-adj, | savagely cruel; extremely fierce or violent ferocity-n. |
| flourish-n./v. | 1.a fancy or showy motion; a dramatic, sweeping movement 2.to grow and develop well; to be successful |
| hearsay-n | gossip; something that is not known directly but from being repeated. |
| impartial-adj. | fair,not taking side or another |
| mar-v. | to damage; to keep from being perfect |
| opaque-adj. | blocking light; not capable of being seen through |
| ransack-v | to search through thoroughly |
| texture-adj. | the surface qualities of something ; the way something feels to the touch |