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Unit 13
unit 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adapt | to adjust or change to suit conditions |
| Attest | to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine |
| Dovetail | to fit together exactly: to connect so as to form a whole: a carpentry figure resembling a doves tail |
| enormity | the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity |
| falter | to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitating; to loose drive, weaken, decline |
| foreboding | a warming or feeling that something bad will happen; marked by fear, ominous |
| forlorn | totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless |
| haughty | chillingly proud and scornful |
| impediment | a physical defect; a hindrance, obstacle |
| imperative | necessary, urgent; a form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required |
| loiter | to linger in an aimless way, hang around,dawdle |
| manlinger | to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job |
| pithy | short but full of meaning |
| plunder | to Robby force, expecially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; property stolen by force |
| simper | to smile or speak in a silly, forced way; a silly, forced smile |
| steadfast | firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing |
| vaunted | much boosted about in a vain or swaggering way |
| vilify | to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously |
| waif | a person (usually a child) without a home or friend;a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit |
| wry | twisted,turned to one side; cleverly or grimly humorous |