Mrs. Wright
| Abasement |
humiliation; degradation |
| Billowing |
swelling; fluttering; waving |
| Cower |
recoil in fear or servility; shrink away from |
| Enhance |
improve; make better or clearer |
| Harangue |
noisy, attacking speech |
| Labyrinth |
a maze |
| Nullify |
to counter; make unimportant |
| Plaintiff |
petitioner (in court of law) |
| Replete |
full |
| Tangible |
can be touched |
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| Abrasive |
rough; coarse; harsh |
| Bilk |
cheat; defraud |
| Covert |
hidden; undercover |
| Engender |
cause |
| Hangar |
storage area (like garage) for a plane |
| Knotty |
complex; difficult to solve |
| Nuance |
something subtle; a fine shade of meaning |
| Plagiarism |
taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas |
| Renown |
fame |
| Tangent |
going off the main subject |
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| Anecdote |
a brief amusing story |
| Celerity |
speed |
| Dexterous |
skilful with hands |
| Extraneous |
irrelevant |
| Incoherent |
not clear |
| Maladroit |
clumsy; unskillful |
| Pallid |
pale |
| Presumptuous |
assuming too much; arrogant |
| Scrupulous |
careful; diligent; painstaking |
| Unequivocal |
clear; obvious |
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| Alibi |
an excuse that shows someone was not at a crime scene |
| Buttress |
strengthen; support |
| Delineation |
demarcation; explanation; definition; outlining |
| Evacuate |
vacate; empty; abandon |
| Idiosyncrasy |
a personal peculiarity; something unique to an individual |
| Libertarian |
someone who opposes tyranny |
| Ominous |
threatening |
| Potent |
powerful; compelling; strong |
| Ruminate |
think over something; ponder |
| Transcribe |
copy |
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| Acrophobia |
fear of heights |
| Bourgeois |
middle class |
| Debility |
weakness; incapacity |
| Epistolary |
concerned with letters; through correspondence |
| Hiatus |
interruption; pause |
| Languid |
tired; slow |
| Obscured |
hidden; covered; buried |
| Poised |
calm; collected; self-possessed |
| Resplendent |
shining; glowing |
| Therapeutic |
medicinal; curative |
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