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Gr 7 Fall WM 2025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| wellspring | a source of continual supply |
| flay | to criticize harshly |
| myopic | a lack of foresight:a narrow view of something |
| travesty | a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something |
| banish | expel, as if by official decree |
| taciturn | tending to be quiet:not speaking frequently |
| vortex | the shape of something rotating rapidly |
| castigate | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| pragmatic | concerned with practical rather than intellectual or artistic matters |
| escapade | any carefree episode |
| ravage | a destructive action or effect |
| empirical | relying on experience or observation usually without regard for a system and theory |
| palaver | speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| scant | having a small or short supply |
| exodus | a mass departure |
| abscond | to leave secretly and hide oneself |
| prolific | highly inventive : productive |
| maelstrom | a great confusion |
| impound | take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority |
| loquacious | very talkative |
| whippersnapper | a small, unimportant, or overly confident person |
| eulogize | praise formally and eloquently |
| resilient | tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change |
| calumny | uttering misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation |