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Monday, October 3, 2016

Vocabulary #5

venomous - marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; harsh or corrosive in tone;extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
stolid - having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
hypnotized - having your attention fixated as though by a spell
suspended -(of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment;temporarily inactive
transformed -  given a completely different form or appearance
accuse -  bring an accusation against; level a charge against; blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; realize beforehand; be excited or anxious about; act in advance of; deal with ahead of time; regard something as probable or likely; make a prediction about; tell in advance
fringe - edging consisting of hanging threads or tassels; a social group holding marginal or extreme views; a part of the city far removed from the center; the outside boundary or surface of somethingdecorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe; adorn with a fringe
melancholy - characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; grave or even gloomy in charactera feeling of thoughtful sadness;a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed; a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
earnestly - in a serious manner
dissolve -  a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out; verb declare void; come to an end;bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; become or cause to become soft or liquid; pass into a solution; cause to go into a solution; become weaker; cause to fade away;lose control emotionally; cause to lose control emotionally; stop functioning or cohering as a unit
aggravate - make worse; exasperate or irritate
illuminate - add embellishments and paintings to; make lighter or brighter; make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
capillary - long and slender with a very small internal diameter; of or relating to hair;noun a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action; any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
proboscis - a long flexible snout as of an elephant; the human nose

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