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Eng 10 Vocab 11
"Improving" vocab Ch 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gaunt | thin and bony |
| Immaculate | perfectly clean |
| Blatant | very obvious, often offensively so |
| Retaliate | to return an injury for an injury; pay back |
| Contrive | to plan cleverly; think up |
| Plagiarism | using someone else's writings or ideas as one's own; a form of intellectual theft |
| Blight | something that weakens, damages or destroys |
| Gloat | to feel or express delight or self-satisfaction, often spitefully |
| Garble | To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); to scramble; bad cell-phone reception leads to messages that are ___ (ed). |
| Qualm | an uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is |