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Summer 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ability | skill, talent at a particular task |
| elegant | beautiful, graceful, stylish, fancy |
| passage | reading selection; narrow way between rooms, buildings, etc; the moving through past something from one place to another. |
| absorb | to soak up; absorption |
| enable | to make something possible |
| pastime | leisure time activity |
| accuse | to directly blame someone |
| examine | to look at closely, to inspect |
| pause | to stop briefly |
| act | a division within a play; a pretended performance; an action or deed; to do something; |
| explore | to check out what something is like |
| perform | to put on a show; to carry out an action |
| active | physically energetic; getting directly involved in something rather than just giving it your support (e.g., active member of the Women's Rights movement) |
| plunge | to fall or dive deeply -- physically, as into the water or mentally, as into one's studies or into a relationship |
| superior | of the best quality; better than anyone / anything else |
| inferior | worse than others; of poor quality |
| startled | suddenly surprised, sometimes reacting with a small jerking movement |
| opossum (possum) | common nocturnal, rat-like, marsupial animal |