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Vocab List for Biography Autobiography #1
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| Abstract (adj) | unspecific, intangable, theoretical, speculative, abstruse, difficult "abstract thought" |
| Abstract (N) | "abstract a paper" summery, abridgement, synopsis |
| Abstract (v) | to remove, seperate "in New YOrk they are abstracting hte bodies from the World Trade Center" |
| Libel (V) | "he libeled the senator in print" to slander, defame, malign, vilify |
| Libel (N) | "a charge of libel" defamation in print, slander, vilificatoin, calummy |
| Arid (Adj) | "the desert was arrid" dry, waterless, parched, sere, dehydrated, barren 2. "an arrid existence" unintrested, dull, lifeless |
| Loathe (v) | "he loathed his cousin" hate, detest, despise |
| Embroil (v) | "complications embroiled the program" upset, unsettled, disturbed, agitated, complicated, disordered, disarranged, entangled, confused |
| Fervor (n) | "he spoke with fervor" with zeal, passion, enthusiasm, intensity, andor |
| Converstant (adj) | "Yes, I'm conversant with my Mother" farmiliar, learned, skilled, knowledgeable, well-informed |
| Beguiled (v) | "the swindler beguiled me!" tricked, decieved, hoodwinked |
| Encumbered (v) | "he was encumbered with the large load" burdened, oppressed, overloaded, feter, trammel, schackle, weighed down, hinder, impede, hamperd, |
| Supplicate (v) | "supplicated his teacher" begged, beseeched, pleaded, impolored, petition, appeal |
| Plaintive (adj) | "plaintive cries" sad, sorrowful, woeful, meloncoly, yearning |
| Harbinger (n) | "a harbinger" hearld, omen, melancholy, yearning, dolorous, doleful, mornful |
| Taciturn (adj) | "the taciturn student sat quietly" silent, quiet, reserved |
| Morose (adj) | moody, sour, sulky, sullen "she sat by herself in a morose humor" |
| Invective (n) | "an editorial full of invective" scorn, critisism, abuse |
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