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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| amend | to change by removing errors or making corrections or adiitions |
| conformity | similarity in form, action, or thought; action in agreement with customs or popular opinion |
| diminish | to make or become smaller; to reduce |
| endeavor | a serious attempt or effort |
| endeavor (V) | to make an effort or to do or accomplish |
| evasive | tending to trying to avoid or escape from escaping, especially by using cleverness. |
| gullible | easily decieved or tricked |
| inferior | poor quality; below average |
| inferior 2 | low or lower in quality |
| loathe | to feel intense dislike or disgust for |
| nostalgia | a longing for what is past or far away or for happier times of long ago |
| notable | deserving notice or attention; remarkable |
| procrastinate | to put off |
| stamina | the ability to resist |
| torrent | a swift flow or heavy rain |
| unnerve | to cause to lose one's courage or confidence |
| vulnerable | capable of being hurt emotioally or phsiycally; easily hurt |
| antidote | as substance or treatment given oppose the effects of poison or something that works to correct or cure a bad or evil condition |
| bedlam | great confusion and disorder |
| designate | to show by mark, sign, or symbol; to call by a certain name; to selcect or appoint for a certain purpose or duty; to appoint |
| ethical | relating to what is right or wrong in behavior; agreeeing with the rules of society or of a paticular group; moral |
| extansice | large in area, amount, effect, influence, and so on |
| indispensable | absolutly nessercery; essential |
| medival | like or having to do with the middle ages |
| oust | force to leave or drive out |
| preposterous | so against the truth or ridiculous |
| seep | t o ooze or leak out |
| succumb | to give in under pressure or to die |
| vanity | extreme pride |
| vigilant | staying watchful and alert |
| witticism | a clever remark |
| accomplice | one who knowingly participates with another in a crime; partner in crime |
| concur | to defeat or agrree |
| crevice | a narrow crack in our thorogh something |
| decent | proper and fitting; fairly good |
| detract | to take away or lessen |
| exotic | foreign; unusual |
| flinch | to draw back; wince |
| gruesome | causing horror and disgust |
| haughty | over proud of oneself |
| horde | a large crowd |
| makeshift | used as a temporary substitude for the proper desired thing |
| phobia | an extreme and unreasonable fear of something |
| reluctance | a feeling of being unwillingness |
| rivarly | competition; an effort to obtain something |
| vocation | an occupation or trade |
| admission | confession |
| dear | expensive |
| decided | un questionable or detrimend |
| edge | advantage |
| fancy | imagination, fondness, to imagine; |
| forge | to form or to move forward slowly |
| game | courageous; ready; lame |
| rude | crude |
| slanted | change the thing |
| steal | to move quietly |
| stunt | to hold back growth |
| tax | to burden |
| toy | to play or fool with |
| weigh | to consider with carefully |
| annihilate | to destroy |
| erate | to scold |
| brink | the edge |
| devise | to invent |
| dormant | not active |
| drone | humming; tiresome speaking;low humming |
| embed | to set firmly |
| frenzy | a wild outburst or great excitment |
| hurtle | to move swiftly |
| improable | unlikely |
| jeopardy | great danger |
| lax | careless, not strict, loose |
| meager | barely eough |
| obstruction | an obstacle |
| undeniable | unquestionable, and certain |
| absurd | ridiculous |
| boycott | refusing to buy, sell, or use a product |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly |
| divert | to change the direction or course of |
| forlorn | miserable |
| haven | place of safety |
| logic | correct reasoning; a way of reasoning |
| reconcile | to make satisfied or to make up |
| skeptical | showing doubt |
| superflous | unnecessary |
| tempo | the speed of music, rate of activity |
| toxic | posionous |
| vivid | clear, bright, strong |
| waver | to be unsteady to hesititate |
| zoology | the study of animals |
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