ASC 110714
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applemint2368 on July 14, 2011
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 embark | to go aboard; to make a start; to invest |
| somber | grave or even gloomy in character |
| toil | productive work (especially physical work done for wages) |
| mournful | filled with or evoking sadness |
| delusion | a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea |
| foreboding | a feeling of evil to come |
| insoluble | admitting of no solution or explanation |
| rapacious | excessively greedy and grasping |
| folly | the trait of acting stupidly or rashly |
| flurry | a rapid bustling commotion |
| profound | showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths |
| swell | increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity |
| preconceptions | An opinion or conception formed in advance of adequate knowledge or experience, especially a prejudice or bias |
| bastion | a group that defends a principle |
| envision | picture to oneself |
| commodity | anything that is bought or sold |
| facade | a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant |
| notoriety | the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality |
| ideologies | systems of thought and belief |
| aspirations | a hope or ambition of achieving something |
| conjure | to bring forth, especially through words |
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