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English Vocabulary 1

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Abject extremely bad or severe; very humble; feeling or showing shame; very weak; lacking courage or strength; utterly hopeless; miserable; humiliating; wretched; or obsolete.
Appendicitis inflammation of the vermiform appendix.
Eclectic selecting or using what appears or is considered to be best in various doctrines, methods, or styles; composed or made up of elements drawn from various sources; also heterogeneous.
Electorate the body of persons entitled to vote in an election; the territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of a German elector or of an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.
Impending about to happen; imminent or imminently threatening or menacing; to hover threatening; or to hang suspended.
Interjection a spoken word, phrase, or sound that expresses sudden or strong feeling; the act of interjecting; an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection.
Pendulous inclined or hanging down loosely; suspended so as to swing freely; oscillating; vacillating or undecided; wavering; indecision or uncertainty; poised without visible support.
Predilection a natural liking for something; a tendency to be attracted to something or to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; an established preference for something.
Projectile a missile designed to be fired from a rocket or gun; an object propelled through the air, esp. one thrown as a weapon.
Propensity a strong natural inclination or tendency to do something.
Sacrilege an act of treating a holy place or object in a way that does not show proper respect; gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing; the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred.
Trajectory the curved path along which something (such as a rocket or projectile) moves through the air, through space, or the like in its flight. In geometry, a curve or surface that cuts all the curves or surfaces of a given system at a constant angle.
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