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Stadlier Oxford D
WCHS Unit 3-D
word | definition |
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abridge | to make shorter |
adherent | a follower suppoter attached sticking to |
altercation | an angry argument |
cherubic | resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful round or chubby face sweet and innocent |
condone | to pardon or overlook |
dissent | (v) to disagree; (n) disagreement |
eminent | (adj) famous, outstanding, distinguished; rojection |
exorcise | (v) to drive out by magic; to dispose of somethng troublesome, menacing, or oppressive |
fabricate | (v) to make, manufacture; to make up, invent |
irate | (adj) angry |
marauder | (n) a raider, plunderer |
obseity | (n) excessive fatness |
pauper | (n) an extremely poor person |
pilfer | (v) to steal in small quanitities |
rift | (n) a split, break, breach |
semblance | (n) a likeness; an utward apppearance; an apparition |
surmount | (v) to overcome, rise above |
terminate | (v) to bring to an end |
trite | (adj) commonplace; overused, stale |
usurp | (v) to seize and hold a positon by force or without right |