ELT vocabulary
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bcarleton15 on November 4, 2010
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48 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bay | a howl |
| Cache | something great or special that is hidden |
| Recede | To go or move further away from previous position |
| mull | to think about deeply |
| distemper | disorderly |
| cantankerous | uncooperative, bad tempered |
| mollify | to calm someone down, appease the anger of someone |
| exuberant | filled with energy |
| reconniter | make military observation of |
| putrid | decaying rotten smell |
| gangrene | the localized death or decomposition of the body |
| tedious | long slow, dull |
| dismal | depressing, dreary |
| meander | to follow a winding course |
| commence | to begin, start |
| nostalgia | a sentimental longing for the past |
| laurel | any amount of shrubs or greens with glossy green leaves |
| miller | a person who works on or owns a place that grinds grain into flour |
| intolerable | unable to be endured |
| clamber (v) | to climb or move in an awkward way |
| bleary | unfocused or filmy |
| Ware | merchandise, pottery that has a specific use |
| gizzard | the muscle part of a birds throat |
| sharecropper | A tenant farmer who gives a part of each of his crop as rent |
| shiftless | characterized by laziness or lack of ambition |
| bushel | a measure of capacity of 64 US pints, large amount |
| stob | a stump or broken branch |
| brier | a prickly plant or shrub |
| sapling | a young tree |
| Whippoorwill | A North and Central American nightjar with a distinctive call |
| cleft | a split or sever |
| vittles | food or food supplies |
| bough | main branch of a tree |
| proposition | A statement or assertion that expresses an opinion or judgment |
| begrudge | to envy someone else's fortune |
| tallow | a hard fatty substance of animal fat usually used to make candles or soap |
| lope | to run or move with a long bounding stride |
| disciple | a follower of someone |
| thrifty | using money and resources carefully and not wastefully |
| thimble | metal plastic cup to protect someones finger when threading a needle for sewing |
| contraption | A machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, often badly made or unsafe |
| pallet | a straw mattress |
| denomination | a religious group (esp a branch of Christianity) |
| bray | a loud harsh cry of a donkey or mule |
| repentance | a feeling or expression of complete regret |
| partial | being inclined toward something |
| savage | fierce, violent, out of control |
| pagan | a person holding religious beliefs not like other main religions |
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