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Lesson 12 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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adequate | good enough for the situation |
agony | great pain of body or mind |
brawny | muscular; strong |
cantankerous | never agreeable; difficult to deal with |
decade | a ten-year period |
exquisite | 1.extremely lovely; delicately beautiful 2.highly admirable; excellent |
ferocious | savagely cruel; extremely fierce or violent |
Flourish | a fancy or showy motion; a dramatic sweeping movement to grow and develop well; to be successful |
hearsay | gossip; something that is known directly but from being repeated |
impartial | fair;not taking one side or the other |
mar | to damage; to keep from being perfect |
Opaque | blocking light; to keep from being perfect |
ransack | to search thoroughly through |
texture | the surface qualities of something; the way something feels to the touch. |