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PIB Vocab List #5
White PIB American Lit, Vocabulary list 5
Question | Answer |
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deride | V- to laugh at scornfully |
desicated | ADJ- dry, dehydrate |
despicable | ADJ- deserving to be despised |
desultory | ADJ- passing aimlessly from one subject to another |
deviate | V- to turn aside from a course, standard |
diadem | N- a royal headband |
diaphanous | ADJ- of so fine a textyre as to be transparent |
dichtomy | N- a division or the process of dividing into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups |
ebullient | ADJ- boiling, agitated |
eclectic | ADJ- selecting or made up of what seems best of varied sources |
edify | V- to edit |
effete | ADJ- having lost character, vitality, or strength |
egregious | ADJ- notably bad |
elegy | N- a song, poem, or speech, expressing grief for one who is dead |
elicit | V- to draw out or forth |