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Lesson 9 and ten
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cautionary | adjj. Offering or serving as a warning. |
| Constrain | v.To confine, inhibit, or hold back by force or necessity. |
| Flotilla | n.. a fleet of boats or small ships. |
| Gossamer | n. 1. thin sheer fabric resembling gauze. 2. A fine filmy substance made of strands of cobwebs. adj. As light and delicate as a cobweb. |
| Ignominious | adj.. Mark by, deserving, or causing shame. |
| Incur | v.To bring upon oneself something undesirable such as debt. |
| Liquidate | v. 1.To settle the affairs of a business; to convert into cash. 2. To get rid of or destroy |
| Magnate | n. An important, often wealthy person prominient in a large industry or business. |
| Misnomer | n. A name that does not fit. |
| Onerous | adj. Burdensome, oppressive |
| Pandemonium | n. A state orlace of great confusion of uproar |
| Quixotic | adj. romantic and idealistic, but impractical |
| Tenacious Tenacity | adj. holding fast, persistent in adhering to something valued of habitual n. |
| Vestige | n. a trace of something that once was present |
| Zepher | n. A light gentle breeze |
| Attest | v.To declare or be evidence of something as true, genuine or accurate. |
| Axiom Axiomatic | n. A statement or principle that requires no proof because the truth is so obvious adj. |
| Churlish | adj. Lacking good manners; rude; impolite |
| Concot | v. To make up, prepare or invent |
| Deriviate | n. Something that grows out of or results from an earlier form of condition |
| Differentiate | v. To see the difference to distinguish To be or make different |
| Disparage Disparaging | v. To criticize in a negative, disrespectful manner adj. |
| Dissplate | v. To break up and spread out so thinly as to disappear; to scatter or be scattered To spend or use foolishly |
| Esoteric | adj. Not generally known or understood, familiar to only a relatively small number of people |
| Olfactory | adj. Relating to the sense of smell |
| Plethora | n. Too great a number; an excess |
| Refurbish | v. To make like new; to renovate |
| Secrete | v.1. To produce and give of 2. To place so as to be hidden from view; to conceal |
| Vagary | n. a departure from the normal, expected course; a whim or unpredictable action |
| Volatile | adj. Evaporating quickly |
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