Meanings Flashcards

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Slender

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Thin or slight;

Small in size;

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Reassuringly

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To assure again

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Truimphant

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having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful

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Dismissive

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indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one’s presence or from consideration:
a curt, dismissive gesture.
indicating lack of interest or approbation; scornful; disdainful.

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Disgruntled

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displeased and discontented; sulky

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Indignantly

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feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base:
indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.

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Grudgingly

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displaying or reflecting reluctance or unwillingness:

grudging acceptance of the victory of an opponent.

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Inexorable

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unyielding; unalterable:
(inexorable truth; inexorable justice)

not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties:
(an inexorable creditor)

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Unvarying

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verb (used with object), var·ied, var·y·ing.
to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance:
to vary one’s methods.
to cause to be different from something else:
(The orchestra varied last night’s program with one new selection)

verb (used without object), var·ied, var·y·ing.
to show diversity; be different:
(The age at which children are ready to read varies)
to undergo change in appearance, form, substance, character, etc.:
(The landscape begins to vary as one drives south)
to change periodically or in succession; differ or alternate:
(Demand for certain products varies with the season)
to diverge; depart; deviate (usually followed by from ):
to vary from the norm.
Mathematics . to be subject to change.
Biology . to exhibit variation.

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Despondently

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feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom:

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Amateur

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a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. Compare professional.
an athlete who has never competed for payment or for a monetary prize.
a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity:
(Hunting lions is not for amateurs)

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Distraught

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distracted; deeply agitated

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Quarry

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an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.

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Strewn

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to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle:
(to strew seed in a garden bed)

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Stagnant

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not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.

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Sheer

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unmixed with anything else:

We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock.

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Four square

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consisting of four corners and four right angles; square:

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Thickets

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a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

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Swerved

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to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.

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Battlements

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Often battlements. a parapet or cresting, originally defensive but later usually decorative, consisting of a regular alternation of merlons and crenels; crenelation.

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Airily

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in a lively or breezy manner; jauntily.

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Overwhelmed

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to load, heap, treat, or address with an overpowering or excessive amount of anything:
(a child overwhelmed with presents; to overwhelm someone with questions)

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Dispelled

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to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate:
(to dispel the dense fog.)
to cause to vanish; alleviate:
(to dispel her fears.)

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Vast

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of very great size or proportions; huge; enormous:

vast piles of rubble left in the wake of the war.

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Unwavering
Waver- | to sway to and fro; flutter:
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Sparsely
thinly scattered or distributed:
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Languorously
lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness. lack of spirit or interest; listlessness; stagnation. physical weakness or faintness. emotional softness or tenderness.
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Peripheral
pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: | peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
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Anticipating
to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee:
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Trivial
of very little importance or value; insignificant:
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Meagre
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate:
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Reluctant
unwilling; disinclined: | a reluctant candidate.
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Impertinent
intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil:
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Inexplicable
incapable of being accounted for or explained.
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Reverberating
to be reflected many times, as sound waves from the walls of a confined space.
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Floundering
to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.):
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Belligerently
of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose:
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Unforeseen
Not seen before
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Penetrated
to pierce or pass into or through:
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Relentless
Harsh or inflexible
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Incomprehensible
not able to be understood;
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Dishevelled
Untidy, disorderd
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Debris
the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble: