English Vocab Unit 2

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Antics

Back 1

Ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions

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Avowed

Back 2

Declared openly and without shame; acknowledge

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Banter

Back 3

To exchange playful remarks, tease; talk that is playful and teasing

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Bountiful

Back 4

Giving freely, generous, plentiful, given abundantly

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Congested

Back 5

Overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess

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Detriment

Back 6

Harm or loss, injury, damage, a disadvantage, a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage

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Durable

Back 7

Sturdy not easily worn out or destroyed, lasting for a long time, consumer goods are used repeatedly over a series of years

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Enterprising

Back 8

Energetic, willing and able to start something new, showing boldness and imagination

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Frugal

Back 9

Emotional, avoiding waste and luxury, scanty, poor, meager

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Gingerly

Back 10

With extreme care or caution

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Glut

Back 11

To provide more than is needed or wanted, to see or feel to the point of over stuffing, an oversupply

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Incognito

Back 12

A disguised state, under an assumed name or identity, the state of being disguised, a person in disguise

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Invalidate

Back 13

To make valueless, take away all force or effect

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Legendary

Back 14

Described in well known stories, existing in all the stories rather than in real life

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mame

Back 15

To cripple, disable, injure, Mar, disfigure, or mutilate

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Minimize

Back 16

To make as small as possible, to make a girly stuff, to make smaller than before

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Oblique

Back 17

Slanting or sloping, not straightforward or direct

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Veer

Back 18

To change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift

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Venerate

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To regard with reverence, to look up with great respect

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Wanton

Back 20

Reckless, heartless, unjustifiable, loose in morals, a spoiled pampered person, one with low morals