Selected Vocabulary from Unit 1 of Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The America
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- ablutions
- n. cleansing the body as part of a religous rite; synonym: rinsings
- protruded
- v. jutted out; synonym: jutted
- confederate
- adj. united with others for a common purpose; synonym: allied
- disposition
- n. an inclination or tendency; synonym: tendency
- deliberation
- n. careful consideration; synonym: thought
- entreated
- v. begged; pleaded; antonym: refused
- feigned
- v. pretended; faked; antonym: revealed
- mortality
- n. death on a large scale; antonym: life
- subsisted
- v. remained alive; were sustained; antonym: perished
- traversed
- v. moved over, across or through; antonym: stopped
- dispatched
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v. sent off on a specific assignment;
antonym: received - loathsome
- adj. hateful; detestable
- pestilential
- adj. likely to cause disease
- copious
- adj. plentiful; abundant
- improvident
- adj. shortsighted
- avarice
- n. greed for riches
- pacify
- v. calm; soothe
- expended
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v. to have spent or used by consuming;
antonym: conserved - redolence
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n. scent; smell;
synonym: aroma - autonomous
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adj. independent;
antonym: dependent - exquisite
- adj. very beautiful; delicate; carefully wrought
- affliction
- n. something causing pain or suffering
- indications
- n. signs; things that point out or signify
- abundance
- n. a great supply; more than enough
- pilfer
- v. steal
- palisades
- n. large, pointed stakes set in the ground to form a fence used for defense
- conceits
- n. strange or fanciful ideas
- mollified
- v. soothed; calmed
- peril
- n. danger
- loath
- adj. reluctant, unwilling
- sundry
- adj. various; different
- recompense
- n. reward; repayment