unit 8
Terms
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- Dilate
- To make or becomelarger or wider; To expand upon.
- Dross
- Refuse; waste products.
- Immunity
- resistance to drugs; freedom to some charge or obligation.
- Venture
- A risky or daring undertaking; to expose to danger; to dare.
- Dwindle
- To lessen; diminish.
- preposterous
- Ridiculous; sensless
- Asylum
- An institution for the care of children. elderly people, etc.
- Pugnacious
- quarrelsome; fond of fighting.
- Remunerate
- To reward, pay, reimburse.
- Liability
- a debt; something disadvandtagoeus.
- Console
- To comfort; the keyboard of an organ; a control panel for an electrical or mechanical device.
- Institute
- To establish; set up; an organization for the promotion of learning.
- Flippant
- Lacking in seriousness; disrespectful; saucy.
- Sparse
- meager, scant; scattered.
- Sterling
- genuine, excellent; made of silver of standard fineness.
- Realm
- A kingdom; a region or field of study.
- Rabid
- Furious; violently intense; unreasonably extereme; mad; infected with rabies.
- Assurance
- A pledge; freedom from doubt, self confidence.
- Rejuvenate
- To make young again; To make like new.
- Warp
- To twist out of shape; an abnormality.