worldly wise lesson 14
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bailey52595 on February 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 congenial | getting along well with others; affable; suited to one's needs or tastes; agreeable |
| decipher | to convert from a code or secret writing into ordinary language; to decode; to interpret the meaning of something puzzling; to solve |
| dissect | to cute into in order to study to study closely; to analyze |
| enigma | anything that is puzzling, mysterious, or hard to figure out |
| ineffectual | not bringing about the desired result, futile. |
| infallible | incapable of making an error, never wrong; unlikely to fail or go wrong |
| irrepressible | incapable of being controlled or held back |
| luminous | giving off light; clear; easy to understand |
| millennium | a period of one thousand years |
| mire | an area of wet, swampy ground; deep mud. to get stuck as it in a mire; unable to make progress |
| pestilence | a rapidly spreading an usually fatal disease. |
| stagnate | a fail to develop change or move |
| sublime | great or noble in expression, thought, or manner; splendid |
| vie | to compete for, as in a contest. |
| voluminous | having great bulk or volume; ample |
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