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lovexbecky on June 13, 2010
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38 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Predisposing | making a receptive before hand or encouraging a tendency toward |
| Impropriety | Improper or inapproite behavior |
| Expatriated | Exiled or driven from one's home land |
| Sylvan | Characteristics of the woods or forest; found in the woods or forest. |
| Coquetry | Flirtation or flirting behavior |
| Anathema | A strong curse |
| Tethered | Fastened or confined with a rope or chain |
| Extamporized | Furnished or contrived in a makeshift way to meet a pressing need |
| Ostentatiously | In a showy or exaggerated way |
| Wan | Pale or colorless |
| Imperious | Urgent or imparitive |
| Traversed | Moved acres, over, or through |
| Summarily | Quickly and without formality |
| Effaced | Wiped or rubbed out; obliterated or erased |
| Preternaturally | Supernaturally or abnormally |
| Oscillation | Act of swinging back anf forth regularly |
| Speculation | Careful thinking about something |
| Judicious | Wise & careful |
| Veritable | True & actual |
| Gaunt | Boney, worn, grim-looking |
| Reveling | Delighting in; enjoying completely |
| fastidious | Hard to please |
| Preposterous | Absurd, rediculous |
| Deft | Dexterous; skillful with one's hands |
| Profusion | An abundant almost excessive reply |
| Decipher | To translate into understandable form |
| Lurched | Staggered or swayed suddenly forward or to one's side |
| To jostle | to bump or push; to push one's way by shoving or bumping |
| Fencer | A person who practices the art or sport of fencing |
| Invalided | Removed from active duty or from a combat zone b/c of injury or illness. |
| Detached | Seperate or a loof. not involved by emotion or interest |
| Pavilians | Related buildings as in a hospital |
| Listed | Tilted to one side |
| Rooting | Rumaging or searching about |
| Rue | Felt remorse for or regret |
| To Tinker | To patch or mend |
| Ravenous | Greedily or wildily hungry |
| Crabbed | Ill tempered or crossed |
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