classical roots 11 & 12
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- marinade
- a liquid often seasoned with spices or herbs to flovor meat or fish for a period of time before cooking.
- inundate
- 1. submerge or overflow with water; to flood. 2. to overwhelm.
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- redound
- superfluous; exceeding what is needed or what is no longer.
- effervescent
- 1) bubbling up from a liquid. 2)very excited; bubbling over with high spirits
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- pyrotechnics
- 1. a display of fireworks. 2. a spectacular display or virtuosity in music, writing, wit, or other accomplishment.
- inflammatory
- 1) arousing strong emotion, especially anger or hostility. 2) pertaining to redness, swelling or pain following an infection or injury.
- flux
- 1. a flow. 2. a continueous succession of changes.
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- fervid
- full of intense passion or zeal.
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- pyromania
- a compulsion to set things on fire.
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- nave
- the long central part of church extending from the entrance to the altar, with aisles along the sides
- scintillate
- 1. to give off sparks, to flash; to sparkle. 2. to be animated or brilliant
- cauterize
- to burn with a hot iron or a chemical to destroy abnormal tissue and/or to stop infection and/or bleeding
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- flagrant
- shockingly evident; outrageously conspicuous
- incendiary
- 1. designed ot intended to cause a fire. 2. tending to stir up strife; inflammatory. 3. a person who maliciously burns his or her own or another's property for monetary advantage.
- hydrology
- the study of water and it's effects on and in the earth and in the atmosphere.
- incense
- to infuriate; to enrage
- confluence
- 1. the flowing together of two or more elements: streams or rivers, or ideas, influences or cultures. 2. an assembling or flocking together in a crowd
- flamboyant
- colored or decorated in a showy way; having a shoy appearance or manner
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- scintilla
- a very small amount, a bit, an iota
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- caustic
- 1. able to burn or eat away by chemical action. 2. sarcastic; marked by a biting wit.
- nauseate
- 1. to cause queasiness; to cause to feel sick. 2. to cause the feeling of repulsion or disgust
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- conflagration
- a large and destructive fire
- dehydrate
- to remove water or moisture.
- pontiff
- a pope or bishop
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- undulate
- to have or to cause to have a way of motion
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- cormorant
- 1. a dark hook-billed sea bird. 2. a greedy person.
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- pontificate
- 1. to speak with popous authority. 2. the office of a pontiff; papacy.
- pyre
- a pile of wood, ect., for burning a corpse as part of a funeral rite; any pile of combustible materials
- effluent
- a stream or flow from a larger body of water, or from a channel or sewer. flowing out.