February words
Terms
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- perimeter
- the whole outer boundary or measurement of a surface or figure.
- periphery
- outside boundary
- periphrastic
- expressed in a roundabout way
- peristalsis
- wavelike contraction of the walls of the intestines which propels contents onward
- fratricide
- act of killing one's brother
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
- regicide
- act of killing a king
- sororicide
- act of killing one's sister
- astringent
- substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood by drawing together blood vessels
- constrict
- draw together; bind
- stricture
- adverse criticism
- stringent
- strict
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- devour
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1) to eat greedily
2) to seize upon and destroy - herbivorous
- dependent on "eating" plants as food
- omnivorous
- eating everything (plant and animal)
- voracious
-
1) greedily eating
2) insatiable, as a voracious appetite - peristyle
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1) rows or columns around a building or courtyard
2) the space so enclosed