Vocab #10
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taylor20msfc on October 13, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abut | border on; adjoin |
| bane | cause of death, ruin or distress |
| deign | to think it beneath one's dignity; condescend; give |
| eke | to supplement; to manage to make a living with difficulty; to use frugally |
| knell | to ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by a mournful ringing; an omen of death of failure |
| mete | to allot, distribute, or apportion |
| moot | discusion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless |
| mulct | to punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deceit |
| plumb | perfectly vertical; directly; to test or sound with a plumb line; to discover the facts of; to fathom, solve or understand |
| quail | to draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower |
| roil | to make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to stir up or agitate; to make angry; rile |
| shunt | to move or turn to one side; to shift or switch from one track to another |
| svelte | slender and graceful; suave; polished |
| thrall | a slave or bondman; a person under the moral or psychological domination of something or someone; slavery |
| tryst | an appointment, as by lovers; to meet |
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