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English 12 Vocab 8
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English 12 Vocab 8
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Thwart
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prevent (someone) from accomplishing something
-Armed police thwart bank robbery |
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Ephemeral
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lasting for a very short time
-fashions are ephemeral. |
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Zenith
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the time at which something is most powerful or successful
the highest point reached by a celestial or other object -the sun was well past the zenith -the missile reached its zenith and fell. |
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Raze
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completely destroy (a building, town, or other site)
-City wants to raze post office built in 1902 in Old West End |
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Ingrate
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an ungrateful person.
-I don’t want to sound like an ingrate or overly sentimental, but I preferred it the old way |
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Abstruse
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difficult to understand; obscure
-er abstruse arguments were hard to follow |
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Feigned
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pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury)
-Saddam trail witness feigned death to survive massacre |
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fealty
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a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord
-They had to swear fealty to Nazism and were indoctrinated with Hitler's ideology while they were in residence. |
