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Vocab
Study Group 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bivouac | an encampment for the night |
| insolvent | bankrupt |
| genuflect | to bend the knee to the ground as in worship |
| execrable | extremely bad |
| chaise longue | a reclining chair |
| lucrative | profitable |
| gloaming | dusk |
| cubism | a style of painting developed in the early 20th century |
| tussles | a rough or vigorous struggle |
| pandemonium | wild uproar |
| paunch | a large protruding belly |
| redundant | being in excess ; useless |
| docile | easily managed |
| filigreed | delicate ornamental work |
| feigned | pretended ; counterfeit |
| liberating | to set free |
| miffed | put into an irritable mood |
| anachronism | an error in chronology in which an object is assigned an incorrect date |
| intrinsic | belonging to a thing by its very nature |
| masquerading | to disguise oneself |