2009 June Week 3

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LAMBENT

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1 : playing lightly on or over a surface : FLICKERING 2 : softly bright or radiant 3 : marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression

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LANGUISH

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1 a: to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated b: to be or live in a state of depression or decreasing vitality2 a: to become dispirited b: to suffer neglect
3 to assume an expression of grief or emotion appealing for sympathy

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LATENT

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: present and capable of becoming though not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
: a fingerprint (as at the scene of a crime) that is scarcely visible but can be developed for study

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LEGACY

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1 : a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : BEQUEST 2 : something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
: of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system

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LETHARGY

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1 : abnormal drowsiness 2 : the quality or state of being lazy, sluggish, or indifferent

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LIGATE

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1 : to tie with a ligature 2 : to join together (as DNA or protein chains) by a chemical process

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MALIGN

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1 a: evil in nature, influence, or effect : INJURIOUS <the malign effects of illicit drugs> b: MALIGNANT, VIRULENT2: having or showing intense often vicious ill will : MALEVOLENT

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MALIGNANT

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1 aobsolete : MALCONTENT, DISAFFECTED b: evil in nature, influence, or effect : INJURIOUS c: passionately and relentlessly malevolent : aggressively malicious2: tending to produce death or deterioration <malignant malaria> ; especially : tending to infiltrate, metastasize, and terminate fatally

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MANTLE

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1 a: a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : CLOAK
2 a: something that covers
the soft external body wall that lines the test or shell of a tunicate or barnacle
3: the upper back of a bird
4the part of the interior of a terrestrial planet and especially the earth that lies beneath the crust and above the central core6

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MAYHEM

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1 a: willful and permanent deprivation of a bodily member resulting in the impairment of a person's fighting ability b: willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body2: needless or willful damage or violence

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METE

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1archaic : MEASURE
2: to give out by measure : DOLE

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MITIGATE

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1: to cause to become less harsh or hostile : MOLLIFY
2 a: to make less severe or painful : ALLEVIATE b: EXTENUATE

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MNEMONIC

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1: assisting or intended to assist memory ; also : of or relating to mnemonics2: of or relating to memory

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MOOT

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1: a deliberative assembly primarily for the administration of justice ; especially : one held by the freemen of an Anglo-Saxon community2obsolete : ARGUMENT, DISCUSSION

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MORES

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1 : the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group
2 : moral attitudes
3 : HABITS, MANNERS