American Novel Vocabulary List #10

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accretions

Back 1

growth or increase in size by gradual addition, fusion or inclusion

Front 2

acquiesced

Back 2

to consent or comply passively or without protest (assent)

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derisive

Back 3

characterized by or expressing derision (contemptous, mocking)

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exemplary

Back 4

working of imitation (commendable); saving as a warning; serving as an illustration or specimen (illistrative, typical); serving as a model or pattern; or pertaining to, or composed of exempla

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fatuity

Back 5

conplacent stupidity (foolishness; something foolish (bestise)

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concordance

Back 6

agreement concord, harmoney; alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which it occurs; alphabetical index of subjects or topics, degree of similarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a particular disease or trait

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egregious

Back 7

extraordinarily in some way bad way (flagarant); distinguished or eminent

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insensate

Back 8

not endowed with sensation (inanimate); without human feeling orsensitivity (cold, creul, brutal); without sense, understanding or judgement (foolish)

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intimations

Back 9

to indicate or make known indirctly (hint, imply, suggest), to make known

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implacable

Back 10

not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified

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putrescent

Back 11

becoming putrid, undergoing putrefaction; of or pertaining to putrefaction

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puissance

Back 12

power, might, force

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rabid

Back 13

irrationaly extreme in opinion or practice; foriws or raging, violently intese, affected with or pertaining to rabies, mad

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resonances

Back 14

qualityor condition of being resonant; richness or significance especally in evoking an association or strong emotion

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taut

Back 15

tightly drawn, not slack (tense); emotionally or mentally straied or tense; in good order of condition (tidy, neat)

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tensile

Back 16

of or pertaining to tention; capable of being streched or drawn out (ductile)

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unconscionable

Back 17

not guided by conscience, not in accordance with what is just or resonable (unscrupulas); excessive, exrotionate

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virility

Back 18

the state or quality of being virive, manly charactor, vigor, or spirit, masculinity; the power of procreation

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welter

Back 19

confused mass, a jumble or muddle; state of commontion, turmoil or upheaval; rolling or tossing or tumbling about as or as if by the sea, waves or wind

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zeugma

Back 20

use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is approriate to each but in a different way