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WAI Lesson 2
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arrogant adj | attitude: acting in superiority to others. |
| Austere adj | severe/ strict in manner or appearance; not extravagant or gaudy in appearance |
| Avarice n | desperate greed for riches. |
| Contagious adj | carrying or spreading a disease to others |
| Deluge (n) | a flood; downpour |
| Doleful adj | sorrowful; sadness filled; melancholic |
| Eligible (adj) | qualify; worthy of choice |
| Evade | to avoid doing or fulfilling |
| Fissure | crevice; a narrow opening produced by separation |
| Illegible | not clear enough to be read |
| Immaculate | pure; free from spot or stain |
| Inert | unable to move |
| Innovation | something new/ different and introduced |
| Oblique (adj) | indirect; indirectly aimed at |
| Obliterate | to remove or destroy all traces of |
| Peruse | to examine in detail |
| Pervade | to become spread throughout all parts of |
| Privation | the state of being miserable; in poverty |
| Retard (verb) | to make slow; delay |
| Transgress | to violate/ go beyond the low. |