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Vocab 1-19
Question | Answer |
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Adorning | AdorningTo decorate or add beauty to,as by ornaments |
Albeit | Although; even if |
Anguished | feelings; showing or accompanied by |
Beckoned | to signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the head or hand. |
Callous | made hard; hardened |
Chaos | a state utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order. |
Dehydration | an abnormal loss of water from the body, especially from illness or physical excertion |
Demeanor | conduct; behavior and deportment |
Famished | extremely hungry |
Flailed | an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar |
Hyperthermia | treatment of disease by the induction of fever as by the injection of foreign protein or the application of heat |
illuminate | to supply or brighten with light; light up |
immersed | plunged or sunk in or as if in a liquid |
intermittent | stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again |
isolation | The complete separation from contagious or infectious disease; quarantine |
Lolled | to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner |
Lurching | An act or instance of swaying abruptly |
Parched | To make dry, hot, or thirsty |
Reassurance | to assure again |
Redeemed | to buy back as after a tax sale or a mortgage foreclosure |