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Useful Words For Creative ... - IGCSE First Language English - Facebook
Useful Words For Creative ... - IGCSE First Language English - Facebook
Useful Words For Creative ... - IGCSE First Language English - Facebook
ablution - washing
approbation - approval
arbiter - a judge
augur (n / v) - prophet; to
avarice - greed
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cloy (v) - to make weary by too much of anything pleasant; satiate, surfeit
concordat - agreement
conjoin ( v) - to connect
convention - standard
correlate (v) - bring into relation; either of two things implying the other
cupidity - greed
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discourse - discussion
dispersion - scattering
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festor - a sore
flay (v) - to strip off the skin; to criticize without mercy; to rob, cheat; to inflict
acute pain or torture
fluster (v) -
forbearance - patience
frieze - decoration
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garrulity - talkativeness
gerrymander (v) - change voting district lines in order to favor a political party
ghastly (adj) - horrible
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indolence - laziness
infirmity - weakness
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lieu - instead of
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maverick - an independent
mimicry - imitation
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nonage - immaturity
novice - beginner
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prescience - foreknowledge
puissance - power
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quandary - dilemma
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rapprochement - reconciliation
reminiscence - recollection
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satiate (v) - to feed fully; satisfy fully; to disgust with too much; glut, cloy
sobriety - moderation
subaltern - subordinate
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zealot - fanatic