English Vocab

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Rancid

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adj. having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as though decomposition

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Fester

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v. to rot; to grow embellished

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Havoc

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n. great destruction or devastation; ruinous

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Languish

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v. to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade

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Pall

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n. anything that covers, shrouds, overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom

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Modicum

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n. a moderate or small amount

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Deluge

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n. 1. a great flood of water; inundation; flood 2. a drenching rain; downpour 3. anything that overwhelms like a flood

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Guile

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n. insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity; underhandedness

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Catholic

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adj. universal

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Aplomb

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n. self confidence

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Eerie

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adj uncanny, so as to inspire superstitous fear; wiered

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Careen

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v. to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion

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Martial

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adj. warlike

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Beneficiary

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n. 1. a person or group that recieves benefits, profits, or advantages 2. a person designated as the recipient of funds or other property under a will, trust, insurance policy, etc.

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Anthropomorphic

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adj. attributing human form or attributed to a being or thing not human, esp to a diety. 2. resembling or made to resemble a human form

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Ambivalence

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n. uncertainty or flunctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things

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Chastise

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v. to discipline or criticize

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Crux

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1. a vital, basic decisive or pivotal point. 2. a cross. 3. something that torments by its puzzling nature; a perplexing diffculty

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Ancillary

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adj. subordinate; subsidary; auxillary; secondary

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Requisite

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adj. required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable