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Word List Day 2
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| animosity | strong dislike |
| fragile | easily injured broken or destroyed |
| acumen | Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment |
| legacy | Bequest or inheritance |
| massacre | cruel killing of a large number of people |
| submerge | put under water liquid sink out of sight |
| combustion | process of burning |
| adulteration | making unpure; poorer in quality |
| appease | make quiet or calm |
| premature | doing or happening something before the right time |
| inquest | Legal or judicial inquiry, especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death |
| shunned | avoided, kept away from |
| conceal | hide keep secret |
| anguish | severe suffering |
| indigenous | native |
| apt | well-suited; quick-witted |
| correlate | have a mutual relation |
| grumble | to complain |
| offhand | Without preparation or forethought |
| somersault | rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement |
| extinguish | end the existence of/wipe or put out |
| edible | fit to be eaten/not poisonous |
| conjoin | to join together |
| surcharge | additional load/charge |
| accolade | praise; approval |
| disallow | refuse to allow or accept as a correct |
| opaqueness | dullness/not allowing light to pass through |
| impermeable | that cannot be permeated |
| console | give comfort or sympathy to |
| timid | shy easily frightened |
| abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest) |
| abide | be faithful; to endure |
| embezzle | use in a wrong way for one's own benefit |
| warrant | authority written order guarantee |
| reminiscent | suggest something in the past |