OMAS Vocab Part 3 and 4
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 determination | firm purpose |
| sustenance | food |
| descent | going down |
| perceptibly | visibly |
| friction | resistance |
| ceding | surrendering |
| periscope | optical instrument used on a submerged submarine |
| sheath | case |
| canyon | stone valley |
| maw | stomach cavity |
| masthead | stern |
| leprous | scaley |
| sluggishly | slowly without energy |
| rigidity | the state of being stiff or inflexible |
| mutilate | to cut up or destroy |
| malignancy | the quality or condition of being very dangerous or malicious |
| trough | a long, narrow receptacle for holding food or water for animals |
| disperse | to cause to spread widely |
| dignity | self-respect |
| scavenger | any animal that eats decaying plant or animal |
| juncture | joint |
| cartilage | tough, connective tissue in the skeletal structure of man and other vertebrates |
| myriad | a great number of persons or things |
| drag | resistance to the movement of a hull through water |
| current | flow |
| sound | to dive suddenly |
| taut | tightly drawn, no slack |
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