vocabulary flash cards for mrs.lock
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bestow | to give as a gift |
| caustic | able to burn or eat away by chemical action |
| crusade | a strong movement to advance a cause or idea |
| deface | to injure or destroy |
| embargo | in order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods |
| fallacy | a false notion or belief; a error in thinking |
| nauseate | to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust |
| recipient | one who receives |
| teem | to become filled to be overflowing; to be present in large quantities |
| tractable | easily managed, easy to deal with |
| ungainly | clumsy, awkward, unwieldily |
| voracious | having a huge appetite, greedy, excessively eager |
| conventional | in line with accepted ideas or standards |
| delve | to dig; to search deeply |
| ensue | to follow in order, come immediately |
| judicious | using or showing good judgement, wise |
| outlandish | strange, freakish, weird, foreign |
| shiftless | lazy, lacking in ambition and energy |
| belated | late, tardy |
| decoy | (v.) to lure into a trap; (n.) a person or thing used to lure into a trap |
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