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