Wordly Wise Lesson 17

Front 1

To bring or cause pain and suffering

Back 1

afflict (v)

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Hint 1

The patient has been afflicted with swollen feet for several months.

Front 2

A condition of pain, suffering, or trouble.

Back 2

affliction (n)

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Hint 2

Frida Kahlo's affliction was the result of a serious accident.

Front 3

Not fruitful; not reproducing.

Back 3

barren (adj)

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Hint 3

When the topsoil is washed away, the land is barren.

Front 4

To be made up; to contain.

Back 4

consist (v)

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Hint 4

The wedding banquet will consist of six courses.

Front 5

A long period without rain.

Back 5

drought (n)

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Hint 5

The poor harvest was due to the drought.

Front 6

To wear away bit by bit; to wear away by action of wind, water, or ice.

Back 6

erode (v)

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Hint 6

Heavy seas from yesterday's storm have eroded parts of the cliff.

Front 7

The process or state of eroding.

Back 7

erosion (n)

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Hint 7

Cutting down many trees in one area leads to soil erosion.

Front 8

To make or become larger.

Back 8

expand (v)

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Hint 8

You can expand your chest by taking a very deep breath.

Front 9

To give further details of.

Back 9

expand (v)

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Hint 9

Mr. da Silva asked me to expand on some of the information in my report.

Front 10

The act, process, or result of enlarging.

Back 10

expansion (n)

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Hint 10

Ten new employees were hired as a result of the company's expansion.

Front 11

A widespread and long-lasting shortage of food that may cause starvation.

Back 11

famine (n)

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Hint 11

The famine in Somalia was the result of several poor harvests in a row.

Front 12

Able to produce good crops.

Back 12

Fertile (adj)

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Hint 12

The major reason we grow such large tomatoes is the fertile soil.

Front 13

Able to produce offspring.

Back 13

fertile (adj)

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Hint 13

A female cat is fertile at six months.

Front 14

Able to produce ideas; inventive.

Back 14

fertile (adj)

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Hint 14

Many ideas sprang from Edison's fertile brain.

Front 15

A place where there is water in an otherwise dry area.

Back 15

oasis (n) pluralform _______________

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Hint 15

Travelers across the Sahara try to reach the next oasis before nightfall.

Front 16

A field of growing grass where animals can eat; a meadow.

Back 16

pasture (n)

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Hint 16

We put the sheep in a different pasture to give the grass in this one a chance to grow back.

Front 17

To put animals out in a field to eat grass.

Back 17

pasture (v)

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Hint 17

We pasture our horses on a neighbor's land.

Front 18

From earliest times; ancient.

Back 18

primitive (adj)

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Hint 18

The primitive cave drawings at Lascaux, France, are over fifteen thousand years old.

Front 19

Simple or crude.

Back 19

primitive (adj)

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Hint 19

The Weinsteins replaced the primitive shed behind the house with a modern garage.

Front 20

Shelter or protection from harm.

Back 20

refuge (n)

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Hint 20

The hikers found refuge from the blizzard in a nearby case.

Front 21

A place of safety.

Back 21

refuge (n)

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Hint 21

During the hurricane, families living in beach houses found refuge in the high school gym.

Front 22

A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger.

Back 22

refugee (n)

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Hint 22

A camp for Kurdish refugees was set up between Turkey and Iraz.

Front 23

To go back to an earlier condition, often one that is not as satisfactory.

Back 23

revert (v)

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Hint 23

During the week that the electric power lines were being repaired, we reverted to eating our meals by candlelight and lantern.

Front 24

To be filled; ot occur in large numbers.

Back 24

teem (v)

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Hint 24

The Columbia River once teemed with salmon.

Front 25

To become dried out; to lose freshness.

Back 25

wither (v)

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Hint 25

The crops will wither unless we have rain soon.