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English
7th Grade
01/12/2015

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Term
Sirocco
Definition

noun

sirrocos(plural)

1)A hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affectingparts of southern Europe.

2)a warm sulty south or southeastwind accompanied by rain, occuring in the sae regions 

 

Term
Highhanded
Definition

adjective

condescending or presumptious;overbearing


Term
Recur
Definition

verb

recurred(past) recuring(present)

1)to occur again

2)to return to the mind

3)to come up again for consideration, as a question

4)to have recourse

Term
Larder
Definition

noun

1)a room or place where food is kept

2)a suply of food

Term
Fervent
Definition

adjective

1)having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling enthusiasm

Term
Elicit
Definition

verb

1)to draw out or bring fourth

 

Term
Aureole
Definition

noun

1)A radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the reprsentation of a sacred personage

Term
Steadfast
Definition

adjective

1)fixed in a certain direction; steadily directed

2)firm in porpous


Term
Authorize
Definition

verb

authorized(past) authorizing(present)

1)to give authority to or official power to; empower

Term
Abyss
Definition

noun

1)a deep immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity, vast chasm

Term
Proufound
Definition

adjective

profounder, profoundest

1)penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge;having deep insight or understandin

Term
Siphon
Definition

noun

1)a tube used to carry liquid from one container to a container on a lower level

Term
Torchbearer
Definition

noun

1)a person who carries a torch

2)the leader in a movement or a campaign

Term
Impassioned
Definition

adjective

1)filled with instense feeling, or passion

Term
Foment
Definition

verb

1)to instigate or foster, or promote the developement

Term
Beeline
Definition

noun

1)a direct route traeled quickly


Term
Pensive
Definition

adjective

1)dreamily or wistfully thought

2)expressing or revealing thoughtfuness 

Term
Exult
Definition

verb

1)to show or feel a lively triamphant or joy

Term
Cavil
Definition

verb

caviled,caviling

1)to raise trivial or irritating objections, find fault unneccesarily

Term
Uproarious
Definition

adjective

1)characterized by or in a state of uproar

2)very funny as a person or situation

3)very loud

Term
Brood
Definition

noun

1)a breed, species, group, or kind

Term
Hinterland
Definition

noun

1)the land lying behind a coastal area

2)an island supplying goods, especially trading goods to a port

Term
Prim
Definition

adjective

primmer,primmest

a1)formally precise or proper

verb

primmed, primming

v1)to draw up the face in a affectedly nice or precise way

v2)to make prim, as in appearence 

Term
Trample
Definition

verb

trampled, trampling 


1)to tread and steap heavily, or noisily

2)to tread heavily, roughly, or crushingly

Term
Sluice
Definition

noun

1)an artificial channel for conducting water, often using a gate at the upper end for regulating the flow

2)the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate

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