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English Definitions

Definitions and words (11th Grade)

QuestionAnswer
Scutum Shield
Custodial Protection
Spathi Sword
Kobo Cut
Magnate a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction
Magnesia Black mineral
Decent Proper/ Fitting
Licentious Morally Unrestrained
Angular stiff in character or manner
Bard Poet
Adequate sufficient
Advertise to make publicly and generally known
Verdant unripe in experience or judgment
Diversity Unique
Warranty something that authorizes, sanctions, supports, or justifies
Warden one having care or charge of something
Warped an anomaly, discontinuity, or suspension held to occur in the progress of time
Warbling to sing in a trilling manner or with many turns and variations
Vulture a rapacious or predatory person
Vulpine of, relating to, or resembling a fox
Vulnerary used for or useful in healing wounds
Vulcan the Roman god of fire and metalworking
Affluent having a generously sufficient and typically increasing supply of material possessions
Afflicted to distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish
Filial of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter
Theist one who believes in the existence of a god or gods
Aesthete one having or affecting sensitivity to the beautiful especially in art
Heretic one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine
Essayist a writer of essays
Mandible a lower jaw
Manual worked or done by hand and not by machine
Mandatory containing or constituting a command
Manacle something used as a restraint
Respite a period of temporary delay
Refuge shelter or protection from danger or distress
Litigate to contest at law
Bilious sickeningly unpleasant
Retaliate to return like for like
Intoxicating to excite or stupefy
Ascend to move upward
Adapt to make fit
Capture an act or instance of capturing
Deviate to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic
Aptly unusually fitted or qualified
Devious not straightforward
Created by: cedouglas
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