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Term | Definition |
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primitive | being the first or earliest of your kind |
affinity | a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, |
birth right | to regard seven to eight hours of unbroken sleep as our birthright. |
inexhaustible | untiring; tireless: |
pathological | dealing with diseases |
empathy | to express inability or reluctance to accept; refuse with courtesy |
decline | cause to slope or incline downward |
cohort | a group or company |
amputate | to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery. |
monolithic | consisting of one piece; solid or unbroken |
liberate | to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage. |
ignominy | disgrace; dishonor; public contempt. |
perennial | having a life cycle lasting more than two years. |
infidel | a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. |
acidic | containing acid-bearing pollutants |
earthquake | a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. |