Jessica Lessing-chapters 15-16
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- hors d'oeuvre
- a food served either before a meal or with drinks
- ensue
- to come next, or follow; to happen as a consequence
- buffet
- a piece of dining room furniture with cupboards and drawers; a meal set out so that people may serve themselves
- delectable
- very pleasing; delightful; delicious
- facilitate
- to make easier or more convenient; to aid or assist in
- succulent
- juicy; not dry or dull; having fleshy plant tissue that conserves moisture
- steppes
- a vast, almost treeless plain in southeastern Europe or Asis
- lapse
- to fall from a higher level to a lower; to pass gradually; to come to an end: slight, temporary error or slip; a fall from a better to worse condition
- palatable
- acceptable to the mindl fit to be eaten; pleasant-tasting
- expedient
- suitable; advantageous; based on self-interest
- zenith
- the highest point of any course or path; the point in the sky directly above an observer
- conducive
- helpful; tending to promote as a result; contributory
- quantitative
- capable of being measured or expressed as an amount
- erratic
- irregular; not steady; uncertain
- requisite
- a necessity; a requirement; absolutely necessary; required by circumstances
- astute
- showing a clever or shrewd mind; crafty
- aptitude
- a natural ability; the ability to learn
- recur
- to return in thought or speech; to happen or appear again; to occur at intervals
- mosque
- a Muslim house of worship
- pastoral
- relating to a simple country way of life; relating to shepherds; rural