1100 - Week 8
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 afflict | to trouble greatly |
| ascend | to rise |
| besiege | to surround |
| emaciated | wasted away |
| excruciating | agonizing |
| fretful | worrisome |
| harbinger | forerunner |
| malignant | becoming progressively worse |
| malnutrition | inadequate diet |
| privation | lack of necessities |
| remote | distant |
| respite | postponement |
| reverberating | reechoing |
| sanctuary | place of protection |
| sinister | evil |
| succumb | yield |
| surge | to rush suddenly |
| thwart | to hinder |
| tranquil | peaceful |
| ubiquitous | being everywhere at once |
| "sour grapes" | to disparage something that you cannot have |
| "swap horses in midstream" | to vote against a candidate running for reelection, to change one's mind |
| "to cool one's heels" | to be kept waiting |
| "a red herring" | something that diverts attention from the main issue |
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