| A | B |
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| canine | n.any animal belonging to the dog family; adj.of or like a dog |
| ossify | v.to change into bone; to harden like bone; to become rigid, hardhearted, or opposed to change |
| meager | adj.noticeably; lacking in quantity, quality, or extent; scanty; lean; thin |
| ravage | v.to destroy or devastate; n.the act of devastating; great damage |
| apex | the highest point of something; vertex; the culmination or point of climax |
| defunct | adj.no longer in existence or functioning; dead |
| perceive | v. to becomee aware of or to understand by means of the senses; to detect; to observe; to grasp the meaning of |
| bourgeois | adj.of or like the middle class; n.a middle-class; the middle class person |
| influx | a flowing in, as of people or things |
| obliterate | v. to destroy completely; to wipe out; to erase |
