English Vocab Week 2
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accost | to greet first |
| adroit | clever, skillful |
| avid | enthusiastic |
| cajole | coax, wheedle |
| enhance | to make greater |
| fabricate | to make up a lie |
| felon | criminal |
| furtive | sly |
| gesticulate | to use lively gestures |
| hapless | unlucky |
| intrepid | courageous |
| irate | angry |
| laconic | concise, pithy |
| nuance | shade of difference |
| plethora | overabundance |
| pretext | an excuse |
| reticent | uncommunicative |
| rudimentary | basic, elementary |
| throng | great number of people |
| vigilant | alert |
| the sword of damocles | any threatening danger |
| pyrrhic victory | an expensive conquest |
| a wet blanket | spoilsport |
| to beard the lion | defy an opponent in his home |
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