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The Blue Cross Vocab
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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waistcoat | a vest |
ruff | a frilly or lacy collar |
colossus | a person of exceptional importance and reputation;someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful |
Gascon | a boastful person, a braggart;or a person who is from the French area Gascony |
athletic humor | ability to amuse others stems from bodily actions |
infinitesimally | immeasurably or incalculably tiny |
grenadier | a member of the British Grenadier guards |
dais | raised platform |
conspicuous | easy to notice,obvious |
statuesque | suggestive of a statue in grace, proportion, or dignity |
disinterred | having been dug up or removed, as from a grave |
conscientiously | governed by or accomplished according to conscience;careful |
regularize | to make regular,to cause to conform |
islet | a little island |
unfathomably | not able to be understood;not able to fully measured or explored |
orthodox | adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith;customary practice or belief |
inarticulate | uttering without the normal use of intelligible speech |
scrutinize | to examine or observe with great care |
irrelevance | the state of having no application or effects in certain circumstances |
palatial | of or suitable for a palace |