Wordmasters #3
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pith | soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants (n); to kill by piercing or severing the spinal cord |
| confiscate | take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority |
| resilient | springy; rebounds readily; bouncy |
| hull | the frame or body of ship, , dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut |
| revile | to speak abusively; to assail with scornful language |
| sporadic | appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional |
| harbinger | To signal the approach of omen; sign |
| jettison | to throw/cast overboard a vessel to lighten it or improve stability in an emergency; to throw off as an obstacle or burden; discard |
| poignant | keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; physically painful; |
| backlash | sudden or violent backward whipping motion; strong reaction to a social or political change; snarl on a fishing line |
| fetter | chain or shackles on the ankles or feet |
| reticent | reserved; not speak freely; reluctant or restrained |
| drone | male honeybee; to make a dull noise; remote control mechanism |
| intimidate | to make timid; fill with fear; |
| probing | to search or examine thoroughly |
| relic | surviving memorial of something from the past |
| obtain | to acquire, to attain, to come into possession |
| persistent | lasting; enduring; constantly repeated; |
| memento | an object or item that serves to remind someone of a person, past event; keepsake; souvenir |
| yield | to give forth or produce by a natural process (cultivation); to give up something; to give way to influence |
| obsolete | non-existent; no longer in use |
| sheen | luster; brightness |
| retaliate | to return like for like; evil for evil; |
| precise | being exactly that and neither more or less; definite |
| marrow | the tissue inside of bones; major site of cell production most essential part |
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