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Word List Day 2
Word | Definition |
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animosity | strong dislike |
fragile | easily injured broken or destroyed |
acumen | Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment |
legacy | Bequest or inheritance |
massacre | cruel killing of a large number of people |
submerge | put under water liquid sink out of sight |
combustion | process of burning |
adulteration | making unpure; poorer in quality |
appease | make quiet or calm |
premature | doing or happening something before the right time |
inquest | Legal or judicial inquiry, especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death |
shunned | avoided, kept away from |
conceal | hide keep secret |
anguish | severe suffering |
indigenous | native |
apt | well-suited; quick-witted |
correlate | have a mutual relation |
grumble | to complain |
offhand | Without preparation or forethought |
somersault | rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement |
extinguish | end the existence of/wipe or put out |
edible | fit to be eaten/not poisonous |
conjoin | to join together |
surcharge | additional load/charge |
accolade | praise; approval |
disallow | refuse to allow or accept as a correct |
opaqueness | dullness/not allowing light to pass through |
impermeable | that cannot be permeated |
console | give comfort or sympathy to |
timid | shy easily frightened |
abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest) |
abide | be faithful; to endure |
embezzle | use in a wrong way for one's own benefit |
warrant | authority written order guarantee |
reminiscent | suggest something in the past |