AEnglish Vocabulary List

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Vocabulary Cards: 32

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  • 1.
    • spacious and comfortable
  • 2.
    • irritate
    • vex
    • muddy
  • 3.
    • blunder
    • mismanage
    • botch
    • spoil by clumsy behavior
    • blow
  • 4.
    • impossible to reconcile
    • not able to be resolved
    • incompatible
  • 5.
    • appear or take shape (usually in an enlarged, indistinct, or distorted form)
  • 6.
    • marked by indecision
    • inconclusive
  • 7.
    • ready
    • happening in the near future
    • willing to help
  • 8.
    • defrock
    • strip a priest or minister of church authority
  • 9.
    • suggest a meaning not expressed
    • signify
  • 10.
    • of a prophet or prophecy
    • having to do with predicting the future
  • 11.
    • bully
    • blow in heavy gusts
    • threaten emptily
    • speak in a noisy or bullying manner
  • 12.
    • short story of an amusing or interesting event
  • 13.
    • living language (as compared to the official language)
    • language spoken in a country or region
    • natural style
  • 14.
    • susceptible to wounds or attack
  • 15.
    • immature
    • childish
  • 16.
    • vested power to reject a bill
    • exercise of this right
    • V: prevent or forbid by exercising the power of veto
  • 17.
    • saturate
    • soak
    • ADJ: precipitous
  • 18.
    • cut into small parts
    • cut (a body) apart limb from limb
  • 19.
    • club
    • heavy-headed weapon
  • 20.
    • obtained from another source
    • unoriginal
  • 21.
    • state of being undecided
    • anxiety or apprehension resulting from uncertainty
  • 22.
    • made up of a variety of parts
  • 23.
    • unerring
    • never making mistakes
  • 24.
    • ignore or behave coldly toward
  • 25.
    • dark
    • silently showing ill humor or resentment
    • gloomy
  • 26.
    • visionary
    • produced by imagination
    • whimsical
    • imaginary
  • 27.
    • authorized agent
    • authority to act for another
  • 28.
    • lose a small piece from the surface or edge
    • N: small piece broken off something
    • Potato chip/crisp
  • 29.
    • small weakness of character
    • slight fault
  • 30.
    • pertaining to the moon
  • 31.
    • dignitary
    • celebrity (in a specific field)
    • object that gives light (as a celestial body)
  • 32.
    • cover with a thin and shiny surface
    • apply a glaze to
    • N: thin, smooth, shiny coating (as for pottery)