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Flashcards by emilyrose_benefi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by emilyrose_benefi
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| Question | Answer |
| Besmirch | V.- to damage the reputation of someone or something in the opinions of others. To make dirty or discolored. |
| Bewilder | V.- to cause someone to become perplexed and confused. |
| Bewildering | Adj.- confusing |
| Cherub | N.- a winged Angel who attends God; a beautiful child. |
| Confound | V.- to cause confusion espicially by acting against expectation. Or to discourage or ruin a plan. |
| Cranium | N. The skull. |
| Decree | N.- an official order or announcement. |
| Drab | Adj.- dull, of a light brown color, lacking brightness. N.- cloth of a dull brownish greenish color. |
| Droll | Adj.- curious or unusual in a way that causes amusement. |
| Entwine | V.- To wind or twist together. |
| Forfeit | V.- to lose property or a privilege or right as a penalty of wrongdoing; to lose or give up something as a nessesary cosiquence of something else. |
| Gargoyle | N.- a grotesque carved human face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building which acts as a spout to carry water away from a building. |
| Giddy | Adj.- having a feeling of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy; excitable an frivolous, disorienting but exciting. |
| Gustatory | Adj.- concerned with tasting or sense of taste. |
| Idyllic | Adj.- extremely happy, peaceful or picturesque. |
| Lock | N.- a device for keeping a door, lid etc. fastened; a device in a canal or waterway for lowering and highering the water level; a piece of a person's hair that coils or hang together.; v- to fasten or secure something, to ridgidly fixed or immovable . |
| Malodorous | I'm smell very unpleasant |
| Melee | N.- a very confused fight, skirmish or skuffle. |
| Menace | N.- a person or thing that is likely to cause harm, threaten or danger. V.- to threaten in a hostile manner. |
| Scepter | N.- an ornamented staff carried by rulers as a sign of power. |
| Tresses | N.- long locks of women's hair. |
| Urban | N.- characteristics of a city or town. |
| Orb | N.- a sphere shaped object, a celestial object, a globe, an eyeball. |
| Plait | V.- to braid together three or more strands of hair, rope, or other flexible material. N.- a braid or single bundle made by braiding together three or more flexible objects. |
| Prattle | V.- to talk at a length in a foolish and inconsequential way. N.- foolish talk. |
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