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English Vocab
Well, it's just boring old vocabulary.
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| galley | a large, usually single decked medieval ship |
| ballast | coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a roadbed |
| tallow | a mis of fats obtained from animals and used to make candles, leather, etc. |
| thwart | prevent from doing something, oppose and defeat |
| abash | embarrass and confuse, make uneasy, disconcert |
| stanchion | an upright pole or posts |
| languid | without energy, faint , weary |
| pellucid | transparent or very clear |
| taciturn | reticent, quiet, silent |
| petrify | turn into stone, paralyze with fear |
| ignoble | dishonorable, not of the nobility, a common person |
| gasket | packing used between machine parts or around pipe joints |
| audacious | courageous, bold |
| disconsolate | without hope, forlorn, unhappy |
| impalpable | not able to be touched, intangible |
| exult | to rejoice, triumph |
| enigma | puzzle, mystery |
| crescendo | to get louder, increase in volume |
| resplendent | very bright, shining, splendid |
| gauntlet | a punishment or torture in which the offender ran between two rows of people who beat him |
| somber | melancholy, dismal |
| chalice | cup or goblet |
| litany | a repetitious prayer |
| impinge | trespass, encroach, infringe |
| annihilate | destroy completely, wipe out of existence |
| garrulous | talking too much, talkative, wordy |
| deride | make fun of, laugh at in scorn |
| florin | a former coin of Great Britain |
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