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Morrow thrives vocab
Term | Definition |
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Robust | Sturdy and strong in form, constitution or construction |
Nonchalant | Behaving in a calm manner, often in a way that suggests you are not interested |
Atrophy | To be reduced in size and therefore strength, or more generally, to become weaker |
Dilapidated | Reduced to it fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect. ( often a structure or building.) |
Docile | Quiet and easy to influence, persuade or control |
Lineage | The members of a persons family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before them |
Precedent | An example that used to justify similar events/ matters at a later time |
Coax | to persuade (influence) someone gently to do something or go somewhere, by being kind and patients, or by appearing to be |
Jaunt | a short journey taken by pleasure |
Commission | to give an order for something to be made (something such as building, piece of equipment, or work of ark). |
Rescind | Take back, cancel, revoke, or repeal |
Infallibility | an inability to wrong; incapable or error |
Uncanny | having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis(background); beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary |
Siphon | To remove a liquid from one place and put it in another using a pipe or tube; the process of emptying |
Denounce | speak out against; to criticize something or someone strongly and publicly |