English Vocab

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Palpable

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Adj- able to be touched or felt

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Indolently

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adv lazily and idly

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naive

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adj unsophisticated

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scruples

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noun misgivings about something one feels is wrong

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blandly

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adv in a mild and soothing manner

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grotesque

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adj having a strange bizarre design

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futile

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adj useless hopless

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taint

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ver to touch or afftect slightly with something bad

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lore

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noun particular body of knowledge or tradition

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opaqueness

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adj exhibiting opacity

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filet mignon

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noun type of stake

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debacle

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noun complete collapse or failure

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placid

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adj calm

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garish

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adj too bright

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recounted

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verb told in detail narrated

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myopia

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noun lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness.

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vitality

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noun exuberant physical strength or mental vigor

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pinnacles

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noun A small turret or spire on a roof or buttress.

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propitiating

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verb to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.

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oppresive

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adj burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical

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antagonism

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noun an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups:

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diffident

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adj lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.

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oblong

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adj elongated, usually from the square or circular form

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interminable

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adj incapable of being terminated; unending

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brassy

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adj made of or covered with brass.

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diminish

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verb to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.

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jolt

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verb To move or dislodge with a sudden, hard blow; strike heavily or jarringly:

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tendrils

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noun A twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant, such as a grape or cucumber, grasps an object or a plant for support.

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coarse

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adj lacking in fineness or delicacy of texture, structure,

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smirking

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verb To smile in an affected, often offensively self-satisfied manner.

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effigy

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noun a representation or image, esp. sculptured, as on a monument

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convulsing

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verb to shake violently; agitate.

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sullen

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adj gloomy

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furtively

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adv stealthily so as to avoid being heard

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imperative

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adj urgent absolutely necessary

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impenetretable

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adj impossible to penetrate

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jabbing

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verb to poke or thrust

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misgiving

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noun a feeling doubt distrust or apprehension

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bewildered

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noun completely puzzled or confused; perplexed

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embers

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noun a small glowing piece of coal or wood.

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rubicund

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adj inclined to a healthy rosiness

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jackdaw

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noun Eurasian crow

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laconic

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adj use of few words

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paraffin

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noun odorless, colorless, water used in candle and lamps.

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scarcely

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adv barely, hard to hear

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mutter

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verb grumble mumble

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larder

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noun a place were food in light

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primus

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noun a movable stove

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enmity

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noun deep seated ofter mutual hatred

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fulcrum

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noun the point or support on which a lever pivots