English - Lesson 7/8
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- aesthetic
- artistic; having to do with art or beauty; sensitive to art and beauty
- charisma
- a special quality of leadership or a special charm that captures the public imagination and inspires devotion
- cliché
- an overused idea or expression; a trite saying
- conceive
- to imagine or develop as an idea; to understand or grasp; to become pregnant with
- emphatically
- forcefully; assertively
- martial
- military; suggesting war; warlike
- paradox
- a statement that may be true but seems to say contradictory things
- prolific
- producing a great deal of something; producing many young or much fruit
- recipient
- a person who receives something
- wan
- sickly pale or faint; colorless
- aura
- a distinctive quality surrounding a person or thing; an invisible, enveloping glow
- fabricate
- to build or manufacture; to make-up or invent (as a story or an excuse)
- impediment
- a speech disorder; an obstruction of some kind
- mediocre
- only average or ordinary; medium; neither bad nor good
- opportune
- right for the purpose; advantageously timed
- qualm
- an uneasiness, misgiving, or doubt; a slight feeling of sickness or nausea
- reactionary
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1: advocating a return to an earlier social, political, or economic policy or condition
2: one who advocates a return to an earlier policy or condition - stamina
- vigor; strength; endurance
- zealous
- intensely devoted; eager; enthusiastic
- zeyphr
- a gentle wind; a mild breeze