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Grade 7 Week 10 Vocabulary
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- 1affecteddefinition: (adj) acted upon; influenced; influenced in a harmful way; impaired, harmed, or attacked, as by climate or disease;
(of the mind or feelings) impressed; moved; touched - 2cajoledefinition: (verb) to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax
- 3critiquedefinition: (noun) an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review; a criticism or critical comment on some problem, subject, etc.
(verb) to review or analyze critically - 4empathydefinition: (noun) the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another; the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself
- 5imputedefinition: (verb) to attribute or ascribe;
to attribute or ascribe (something discreditable), as to a person. - 6morosedefinition: (adj) gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood; characterized by or expressing gloom
- 7portentdefinition: (noun) an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous; threatening or disquieting significance
- 8preferabledefinition: (adj) more desirable
- 9prosaicdefinition: (adj) commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
- 10spectrumdefinition: (noun) a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence
- 11sustaindefinition: (verb) to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure; to bear (a burden, charge, etc.); to undergo, experience, or suffer (injury, loss, etc.); endure without giving way or yielding
- 12terminatedefinition: (verb) to bring to an end; put an end to;
to occur at or form the conclusion of;
to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of - 13terrestrialdefinition: (adj) pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planet; of or relating to land as distinct from water.
- 14veneratedefinition: (verb) to regard or treat with reverence; revere
- 15viscousdefinition: (adj) of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive
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