Wordly Wise Book 8, Lesson 3

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asphyxiate

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verb-- 1. To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

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cornucopia

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noun 1. The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

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desist

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verb 1. To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; - often with from.

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effeminate

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adjective 1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
2. Womanlike; womanly; tender
verb 1. To grow womanish or weak.

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empathy

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Noun 1. empathy - understanding and entering into another's feelings

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evanescent

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adjective 1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.

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frieze

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noun. 1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
verb 1. To make a nap on (cloth);

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indite

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verb. 1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
2. To invite or ask.
3. To indict; to accuse; to censure.
verb 1. To compose; to write, as a poem.

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itinerary

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adjective. 1. Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.
noun 1. An account of travels, or a register of places and distances as a guide to travelers;
2. A detailed plan for a journey, including a list of places to be visited, and often other information such as the dates, places of residence, and transportation to be used during the journey

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lien

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noun. 1. (Law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

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maxim

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noun
1. An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
2. (Mus.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large

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motif

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noun. 1. Motive.
2. (Music) In literature and the fine arts, a salient feature or element of a composition or work; esp., the theme, or central or dominant feature;
3. (Dressmaking) A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming; also, a repeated design

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palfrey

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noun
1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
2. A small saddle horse for ladies.

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phalanx

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n. 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
2. Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
3. A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
4. (Anat.) One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
5. (Bot.) A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

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svelte

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Adj. 1. svelte - showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
2. svelte - gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease

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tertiary

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adjective. 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
3. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
4. (Zool.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; - said of quills.

noun 1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
2. (Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
3. (Zool.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird

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trenchant

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adjective . 1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe;