1100 Week 20
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Created by:
cahb8989 on October 15, 2008
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Magnet Class of 2014, helloterp, 1100 vocab course
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abstemious | moderate in eating or drinking |
| derogatory | expressing a low opinion |
| disparate | different |
| edifice | building |
| extant | still existing |
| indict | accuse |
| levity | humor, lightness of disposition |
| lugubrious | very sad |
| maudlin | sentimental |
| nebulous | vague, not clear |
| omnivorous | eatting any kind of food |
| pesky | annoying |
| puissant | powerful |
| redolent | fragrant |
| repose | state of rest |
| reviled | scolded |
| sultry | torrid |
| trenchant | keen, sharp, biting |
| unabated | without subsiding |
| vicissitudes | difficulties |
| "left holding the bag" | to be left to suffer the blame |
| "a lick and a promise" | to do something in a hasty and superficial manner |
| "tongue in cheek" | insincerely |
| "take the wind out of one's sails" | to remove someone's advantage |
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