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unit 7 english
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acme | the highest point |
| attribute | a quality or characteristics belonging to oor associated with someone or something to assign to credit with to regard as caused by or resulting from |
| belittle | to make something appear smaller than it is to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value |
| convey | to transport to transmit to communicate make known to transfer ownership or title to |
| doctrine | a belief principle or teaching a system of such beliefs or principles a formlation of such beliefs or principles |
| excise | to remove by cutting an inderect tax on the manufacture sale or distribution of a commodity or service |
| exotic | foreign charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual |
| haggard | thin pale and careworm as a result of worry or suffering wild-looking |
| jaunty | lively easy and carefree (in manner)smart or trim (in appearance) |
| juncture | a joining together the point at which two things are joined any important point in time |
| menial | lowly humble lacking importance or dignity a servant who does the humble and unpleasant tasks |
| parry | to ward off evade avoid a defensive movement in fencing and other sports |
| predatory | peying on plundering or piractical |
| ravage | to destroy lay waste ruin ruinous damage destruction |
| stance | a way of holding the baody an attitude or position on an issue |
| tawdry | showy and flashy but lacking in good taste |
| turncoat | a person who switches to an opposing side or party |
| unassuming | not putting on airs modest |
| wallow | to roll about in lazy clusmy or helpless way to overindulge in to have in abundance a wet muddy or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath a state of moral or physical collapse |
| waver | to move to and from become unsteady to show lackor firmnessor decision |