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Juniors - Week 10
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Erudite | adj. Deeply learned, scholarly |
Euphonious | adj. Pleasing to the ear |
Evade | v. to elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from a pursuer |
Evoke | v. to summon forth, call to mind, awaken, produce, suggest |
Exhume | v. to dig up from a grave; to bring to light, uncover |
Expunge | v. to remove; to delete; to erase |
Facilitate | v. to make easier, to help bring about |
Fathom | v. to understand fully; to penetrate the meaning of |
Fawn | v. to show affection |
Feign | v. to give a false appearance; to pretend |
Fester | v. to generate pus; to become a source of resentment or irritation |
Fetish | n. Any thing or activity to which one is irrationally devoted |
Fickle | adj. Often changing for no reason; not loyal or consistent |
Fjord | n. A long narrow inlet from the sea between steep cliffs or hills |
Fleece | v./n. To defraud, swindle; also the wool of a sheep or similar animal |
Colloquialism | refers to a type of informal diction that reflects casual, conversational language and often includes slang expressions |
Connotation | suggestions that go beyond the literal meaning of the word, which derive from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it (opposite of denotation) |