ENGLISH: Vocabulary #11
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- AEGIS (n)
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(1) Protection
(2) Sponsorship; partronage - AUTONOMOUS (adj)
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(1) Not controlled by others or outside forces
(2) Independent in mind of judgement; self-directed. - CLANDESTINE (adj)
- Kept or done in secret, often to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
- DIFFIDENT (adj)
- lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy, timid.
- ESOTERIC (adj)
- Meant for or understood by only a specific group.
- GAMBOL (v)
- To leap about playfully; frollic.
- IMPERIOUS (adj)
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(1) Arrogantly domineering or overbeating
(2)urgent; pressing - JETTISON (v)
- To cast off overboard.
- MIASMA (n)
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(1) a noxious atmosphere or influence
(2) A poisonous atmosphere. - ONEROUS (adj)
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(1) Troublesome or oppressive; burdensom
(2) Entailing obligations that exeed advantages. - PONDEROUS (adj)
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(1) having great weight
(2) unwieldly from weight and bulk. - RECALCITRANT (adj)
- Marked by stubburn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance.
- SCOURGE (n)
- A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that of war.
- SURMISE (v)
- To infer; to guess
- UNWONTED (adj)
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(1) Not habitual or ordinary; unusual
(2) Not accustomed; unused.