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10 Cards in this Set
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ABREAST LIST 5 |
D: side by side and facing the same way EX: In education the Catholic Church endeavors to keep abreast with the best. |
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LOLLED LIST 5 |
D: sit, lie, or stand in a lazy way, relaxed way EX: His head lolled back, and his eyes closed. |
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ABOLITIONIST LIST 5 |
D: a person who favors the doing away with a practice or institution EX: The pioneer of the more recent abolitionist movement was Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839). |
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SPECULATE LIST 5 |
D: to form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence EX: If you want me to speculate, I'd say it ran far deeper than that. |
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BRASH LIST 5 |
D: vulgarly self assertive; hasty, rash EX: You are such an enigma, one minute all cocky and brash, the next formal and chivalrous. |
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SOLEMN LIST 5 |
D: formal, serious, not cheerful EX: He had been unusually quiet and solemn lately. |
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BYGONES LIST 5 |
D: a thing dating from an earlier time EX: Of Inverness by road or canal, and was, in bygone days, one of the keys of the Highlands. |
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LAMENTED LIST 5 |
D: to mourn (loss or death) EX: Ooh! lamented Aniska, who at the sight of the fire felt that she too must give expression to her feelings. |
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PENSIVE LIST 5 |
D: reflecting; in a serious thought EX: I think … She was pensive for a moment. |
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DISPOSITION LIST 5 |
D: tendency to act in a specified way EX: Their disposition was to leave the Chinese in unmolested possession of the plain. |
