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20 Cards in this Set
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Disparagement |
Giving little or no value to something |
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Estuary |
Part of a river reached the tides |
The balcony of the room we stayed open to a estuary |
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Furtive |
Secret not wishing to be seen |
The two boys in the bushes look pretty furtive to me |
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Judicious |
Having good judgment; wise |
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Mangrove |
Tropical tree which grows thickly on soft wet land (especially beer the sea) |
Mangrove swaps grow on the shore of the west coast in profusion |
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Perceptible |
What can be perceived or noticed |
Only in the very last year of his life there was perceptible a positive deterioration |
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Plaintive |
Sad |
From the tents came lourd angry cries and plaintive groans |
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Poultice |
Mass of soft material put on skin as medicine |
The doctor applied poultice to the patients wounds in an effect to stop the burning |
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Probe |
To examine closely |
He didn’t like the police probing into his past |
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Pulque |
A Mexican alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of various plants |
It has been suggested that the scene portrays pulque deities |
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Rigid |
Strict as in discipline |
She was a fairly rigid person who had strong religious views |
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Scurry |
To move in a quickly way |
She scurried up the stairs in order to make it on time |
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Scuttle |
To hasten or to hurry away |
He scuttle away from the bullies who teased him |
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Speculatively |
To think about or to consider what might be or might happen |
Credit became greatly restricted and all descriptionsof speculative entreprise came to an end |
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Sputter |
To talk quickly in an excited manner usually with liquid thrown from the mouth |
He was sputtering with rage while talking to his wife |
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Stern |
Strict |
The stern look on the teachers face scared the students |
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Subjugate |
To defeat and gain control by the use of force |
The bullies friends tried to subjugate the bully in order to make him stop |
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Wade |
To walk through something which makes movement difficult |
I jumped off the boat and waded back to the shore |
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Writhe |
To suffer from shame and confusion |
A rabbit writhed in its claws screaming in terror |
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Strew |
To spread or scatter here and there |
The mother noticed that her young daughter did strew all he tous all over the room which explained the noise she heard that morning |
