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KD Lesson 1

WordDefinition
Temperate Adj.- Exercising self restraint/v.- to moderate or soften
Luminous adj.- emitting light
Prosaic adj.- straightforward/dull spirit/lack imagination/ prose characteristic
Strident adj. loud/harsh/shrill/grating
Animosity n- bittter hostility/ open enmity/ active hatred
Enormity n.- passing all moral bounds/excessive wickedness/monstrous offense or evil
Dearth n.- scarce supply/ a lack/ shortage of food/ famine
Encroach v.- to take another's possessions or rights/ to advance beyond proper limits
Incision n.- act of incising/ scar result from cut/ incisive
Osmosis n- diffusion of fluid through a semipermeable membrane/ gradual absorption
Gregarious adj.- like company of others/ tend to move with a group
Cavort v.- to bound or prance about in sprightly manner/ to have lively fun/ play around
Fraternize v.- to associate with others in brotherly way/ associate friendly terms with enemy
Loquacious adj.- talkative; garrulous
Introvert v.- to turn inward/n.- person tending to shrink from social contacts
Abhor v.- to regard with horror or loathing/ to shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike
Ostracize v.- to exclude from a group
Delineation v.- to draw or trace outline of/sketch out/ to represent pictorially/ depict
Multiplicity n.- state of being various or manifold/ a large number
Panacea n.- remedy for all diseases, evil, difficulties
Watershed ridge of high land dividing two areas that one drained by different river system/ critical point that marks change in course/ turning point
Carp n.- fretful complaint/ an edible fresh water fish
Replicate v.- to duplicate/ to fold over or bend back
Denunciation n.- act of denouncing a public censure/ act of accusing another of crime before public
fidelity faithfullness to obligations,duties,or observances
veritable real,rightly,genuine
verify to establish the truthor correctness of by examination
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