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wordly wise 11-15
book 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| complete political disorder | anarchy |
| vessel for burning insence | censer |
| narrow pass; made unclean | defile |
| group of attendants | entourage |
| remove | expunge |
| particular skill; loudly | forte |
| vivid; pictorial | graphic |
| holding views contraty to those officially taught | heresy |
| treacherous | insidious |
| work for a settlement of | mediate |
| that ease withoug curing | palliative |
| emormous | prodigious |
| formidable | redoubtable |
| winding | sinuous |
| bondage | thrall |
| worker | thrall |
| made by water | aqueous |
| morally pure; severely plain | chaste |
| weaken the spirit of | demoralize |
| killing as an act of mercy | euthanasia |
| that make something seem less serious | extenuating |
| festive | gala |
| enjoying the company of others | gregarious |
| stormy | inclement |
| unkind | inclement |
| clumsy | maladroit |
| beggars | mendicants |
| comprehesive view | panorama |
| increase fourfold | quadruple |
| filled | replete |
| ghostly | spectral |
| change | transition |
| ruling body of three | triumvirate |
| embarrassed | abashed |
| person able to judge or decide | arbiter |
| blessing | benison |
| to fool; frank; steep cliff | bluff |
| spreading sore; evil influence | canker |
| obliging | complaisant |
| coarsely stupid | crass |
| attack the reputation of | defame |
| boredom | ennui |
| gloomy | funereal |
| set of beliefs | ideology |
| intense heat; hell | inferno |
| hired soldier; concerned only with making money | mercenary |
| miserly | parsimonious |
| deliberately spreading ideas that will help one's own cause or injure an enemy's | propaganda |
| worsen | retrogress |
| given too much of something | surfeited |
| dish | tureen |
| washings | ablutions |
| trinket | bauble |
| brutal | bestial |
| pompous | bombastic |
| cautious | chary |
| present from birth | congenital |
| cooking | cuisine |
| reduce in rank | demote |
| change; flow; substance used in joining metals | flux |
| clothes | garb |
| faultless | impeccable |
| abusive language | invective |
| glance flirtatiously at | ogle |
| extreme poverty | penury |
| lighthearted teasing | raillery |
| sparkle | scintillate |
| measure; detailed study; look closely at | survey |
| word for word | verbatim |
| toughen by heating and then cooling | anneal |
| pleasingly suitable | becoming |
| fantastic | bizarre |
| able to float | buoyant |
| on movable property | chattel |
| top of the skull | cranium |
| bmameworthy | culpable |
| express support of; sign on the back of | endorse |
| pirate | freebooter |
| stamp on gold or silver objects; dictinguishing characteristic | hallmark |
| with one's identity concealed | incogneto |
| unalterable | irrevocable |
| peaceful | pacific |
| harmful | pernicious |
| train of attendants | retinue |
| paper entitling the bearer to recieve something | scrip |
| balanced | symmetrical |
| enthusiasm | verve |
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