literature
exam literature vocabulary
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- impede
- to slow the progress of
- genetics
- the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
- cresendo
- gradual increase
- intricate
- having complement structure or pattern
- exhilarating
- making lively and joyful
- indolent
- lazy
- congregated
- to come together in a group
- benign
- kind and gentle
- excruciating
- extremely painful
- diminsh
- reduce in size or decrease and increase
- hoard
- a secret store of valuables or money, To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
- aptitude
- capacity for learning, natural ability
- carnage
- (n.) large-scale slaughter or loss of life (syn- butchery, bloodbath, massacre)
- exempt
- (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
- admonition
- gentle or friendly reproof; friendly warning.
- anguish
- acute pain; extreme suffering
- assimilate
- become similar to one's environment
- chastise
- to criticize severely
- conspicous
- obvious
- interdependent
- dependent on eachother; one person's actions affect another
- acquisition
- the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
- consciousness
- Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
- gravitate
- to be attracted to; to fall foward
- infringe
- violate (a law); encroach (the right of another person)
- exuberant
- joyously unrestrained
- humiliation
- embarassed, made to feel shame