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Unit 15 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Wistful | full of melancholy |
data | info,facts,figures |
wholesome | healthy |
retaliate | to get revenge |
beserk | violently and destructively engared |
encounter | a meeting especially one that is up planed);a meeting of enemies |
uncouth | unrefined, crude |
prosecute | to bring before a court of law for trail |
epic | (noun)long narrative poem (adj.)vast,titanic |
pantomime | a play or story without words or actors using only gestures |
detract | to take away |
precaution | care taken beforehand |
underscore | to draw a line under |
pessimist | one who believes or expects the worst |
sham | fake,not genuine |
beacon | a light or other signal that warms and guides |
chasten | to punish |
celstial | having to do with the sky or heavens |
confiscate | to seize by authority |
puncture | a small hole made by a sharp object |