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Lesson 12 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |