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AICE English Vocabulary

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Dyspeptic (adj)/Dyspepsia (n)
Always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion
Dilatory (adj)
Inclined to waste time and lag behind
Defer (v)/Deference (n)
Submit or yield to another's wishes
Facile (v)
Easy, effortless
Dray (n)
A large low carriage with four wheels pulled by horses
Decry (v)
Express strong disapproval of
Gainsay (v)
Challenge, dispute
Connoisseur (n)
A person w/ expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts
Elicit (v)
To call forth, draw out, or provoke; To bring out or draw out
Espionage (n)
Spying; discovering of government secrets, especially political or military information of another country or the industrial information of a business
Deliquesce (v)
To disappear as if by melting
Fester (n) (v)
To become infected, to suppurate; an infection
Fledgeling (adj)
New and inexperienced
Genuflect (v) Genuflections (n)
To bow as before a priest (obeisiance, reverent gestures)
Corporeal (adj)
Having physical substance, material form
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