SAT 6/28 5
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applemint2368 on June 27, 2012
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 surly | rude and bad-tempered |
| quagmire | a bog; marsh |
| thesis | theory or hypothesis; dissertation or long, written composition |
| agile | well coordinated, nimble |
| mendicant | beggar |
| angular | characterized by sharp angles; lean and gaunt |
| alimony | payment by a husband to his divorced wife |
| raconteur | an interesting storyteller |
| mettle | courageousness; endurance |
| bleak | desolate; cheerless syn. adj. depressing, raw, grim, forbidding, dismal, dreary, drab |
| chalice | goblet, cup |
| cynic | person who distrusts the motives of others |
| impudent | arrogant, audacious |
| yoke | to join together |
| lackluster | dull; trite |
| kith | familiar friends |
| authoritative | having or arising form authority; official; wielding authority; commanding |
| pulchritude | beauty |
| felon | a criminal |
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