Wordly Wise 11 and 12
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tarakneller on January 12, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Amenity | A feature that contributes to phiysical comfort |
| Averse | Having a feeling of opposition or distaste |
| Complacent | So self-satisfied that one sees no need for change; unconcerned |
| Decompose | to decay or to break down into basic elements |
| Defray | to supply the money for; to pay |
| Emanate | To come out from a source |
| Envisage | To picture in one's mind, to imagine something in the future |
| Facetious | Playfully humourous |
| Fallacy | A false or mistaken idea |
| Furor | An uproar; a state of great anger or excitement |
| Idyll | An episode or experience that is calm and carefree |
| Paucity | Scarcity; smallness in number or amount |
| Porous | Full of tiny holes or spaces; easily penetrated by gas or liquid |
| Supersede | To replace; to cause to be set aside because of superiority |
| Tangible | real; able to be touched |
| Adversity | Misfortune; hardship |
| Cardinal | Most important; chief |
| Credible | Believable; reliable |
| Empathize | to show or feel understanding of another's feelings or problems |
| Faculty | any of the natural powers of the mind and body, such as sight or hearing |
| Horrowing | very distressing or acutely painful |
| Impair | to damage, weaken or lessen |
| Infer | to reach a conclusion through reasoning |
| intuition | knowing or sensing something without the use of a reason; an insight |
| manifest | plain to see; evident |
| nuance | a very slight change of meaning or feeling; a graduation |
| pernicious | very destructive or harmful |
| Solace | comfort or relief in sorrow or distress; consolation |
| treatise | a methodically and thoroughly written discussion of a topic |
| vogue | the popular fashion of the time, wide acceptance or favor |
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