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wordly wise lesson14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| congenial | adj.1.Getting along well with others; affable. he people in the small Italian town were very congenial when the tourist asked many questions. |
| congenial | adj.2.Suited to one’s needs or tastes; agreeable. We found a congenial little cabin right on the beach. |
| decipher | v.1.To convert from a code or secret writing into ordinary language; to decode. You decipher the code by replacing numbers with the corresponding letters. |
| decipher | v.2.To interpret the meaning of something puzzling; to solve. The writing in these old letters is so faded that it is almost impossible to decipher the words. |
| dissect | V.1.To cut into in order to study. Students taking the biology course dissect a dead frog in order to learn about the internal organs. |
| dissect | V.2.To study closely; to analyze. After Coach Willard and the team members had watched the video of last week’s game, they dissected the plays that had gone wrong. |
| enigma | n.Anything that is puzzling, mysterious, or hard to figure out. Even after many studies, the purpose of the huge, complex designs formed in the dirt of the Peruvian desert remains an enigma. |
| enigmatic | adj.Puzzling; mysterious. After I heard Lucia’s enigmatic phone message, I called her immediately to find out what was going on. |
| ineffectual | adj.Not bringing about the desired result, futile. My attempt to grow tomato plants from seed has been ineffectual, with most withering before they had sprouted leaves. |
| infallible | adj.1.Incapable of making an error; never wrong. Peterson’s book is an infallible guide to the birds of the salt marshes. |
| infallible | adj.2.Unlikely to fail or go wrong. Rubbing a nettle sting with dock leaves is an infallible remedy. |
| irrepressible | adj.Incapable of being controlled or held back. Charlie’s irrepressible sense of humor helps to make history class fun. |
| luminous | adj.1.Giving off light. Do you have a watch with a luminous face that you can bring on our camping trip? |
| luminous | adj.2.Clear; easy to understand. Jennie’s history teacher praised her luminous prose in her research paper on the mill girls of Lowell. |
| millennium | n.A period of one thousand years. A millennium is ten times as long as the one-hundred year period of a century. |
| mire | n.An area of wet, swampy ground; deep mud. Last night’s heavy rains have turned the field into a mire, delaying the planting of seed for several days. |
| mire | v.To get stuck as if in a mire; unable to make progress. The organizers of the road race became mired in a bewildering set of rules and regulations. |
| pestilence | n.A rapidly spreading and usually fatal disease. The pestilence that swept through Europe in the 1300s killed three-quarters of the population. |
| stagnate | v.To fail to develop, change, or move. Students’ minds may stagnate if they are not challenged. |
| stagnant | adj.Not moving, changing, or developing. As we approached the edge of the lake, we found stagnant, muddy water instead of the cold clear ripples we had expected. |
| sublime | adj.Great or noble in expression, thought, or manner; splendid. Standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon at dawn, we had a sublime panorama of the canyon walls changing color in the morning light. |
| vie | v.To compete for, as in a contest. By January, the top eight schools in the state vied for the championship. |
| voluminous | adj.Having great bulk or volume; ample. The museum will exhibit a select group of bowls and jugs from its voluminous collection of Pueblo pottery. |
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