Emma's Vocab Workshop Unit 2
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atilley Plus on September 4, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 antics | ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions |
| avowed | declared openly and without shame, acknowledged |
| banter | to exchange playful remarks, tease; talk that is playful and teasing |
| bountiful | giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly |
| congested | overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess |
| detriment | harm or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage |
| durable | sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time; consumer goods used repeatedly over a series of years |
| enterprising | energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing boldness and imagination |
| frugal | economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager |
| gingerly | with extreme care or caution |
| glut | (v.) to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing; (n.) an oversupply |
| incognito | in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity; the state of being disguised; a person in disguise |
| invalidate | to make valueless, take away all force or effect |
| legendary | adj. descrbed in well known stories, existing in well known stories. |
| maim | to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate |
| minimize | to make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before |
| oblique | slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading |
| veer | to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve |
| venerate | to regard with reverence, look up to with great respect |
| wanton | reckless; heartless, unjustifiable; loose in morals; a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals |
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