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ic9-2 English
midterm vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to trick someone | swindle |
| having many sexual partners | licentious |
| can't be avoided | inevitable |
| cure for poison | antidote |
| to float in the air | hover |
| a strong feeling that something is going to happen. | premonition |
| a raunchy smell or oder | stench |
| capable of being herd. | audible |
| small, quiet, gentle | meek meek |
| extremely hungry | ravenous |
| scattered or thrown about | strewn |
| crippleing | despair |
| a person walking (pedis=foot) | pedestrian |
| war. | revolutionary |
| a ghost or ghost like image of someone | wraith |
| friendly and submissive | docile |
| easily remembered | memorable |
| a man who pursues a woman he wants to marry | suitor |
| very tired | weary |
| can be helped | vulnerable |
| to die | perish |
| a look back | retrospect |
| overly bossy | officious |
| a false face or front | facade |
| parallel to the ground, the "horizon" | horizontal |
| having a withdrawn gloomy personality | morose |
| giving excessive or fake flattery or compliments, to "fall all over" | fawning |
| to make a twisting, squirming movements | writhe |
| a great sorrow or distress | woe |
| contemptuous ridicule | derision |
| a place where two things meet or a stage/ point in time | juncture |
| irregular pattern of patches of color or shades | mottled |
| deserving scorn or punishment | reprehensible |
| can't be penetrated by, immune to | impervious |
| to calm someone that is upset, to make something less intense | mollified |
| disappointed, depressed, sad | crestfallen |
| snuck quickly across, little quick steps | scuttle |
| the form a language is spoken by people of a certain area or social class (certain way of talking: Howdy Y'all) | dialect |
| to make a soft swishing sound, (leaves in wind) | rustle |
| hug | embrace |
| to make fun of, to express scorn about someone or something | scoff |
| ruddily | curtly |
| a thin slice | sliver |
| to die (person) or to spoil (food) | perish |
| advice | councel |