Lesson 11
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- balmy
- mild and pleasant
- wane
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- inclement
- used of persons or behavior
- besieged
- surrounded by hostile forces
- espionage
- the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
- pretext
- an artful or simulated semblance
- precarious
- affording no ease or reassurance
- latitude
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
- beguiled
- filled with wonder and delight
- appease
- make peace with
- invincible
- incapable of being overcome or subdued
- facsimile
- duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
- perseverance
- the act of persisting or persevering
- archaic
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- vulnerable
- susceptible to physical or emotional injury
- autonomy
- immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- devastation
- termination by an act of destruction
- wreaking
- to inflict (as vengeance or punishment); to express (as anger or hatred)
- vigilant
- carefully observant or attentive
- commenced
- started