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| banshee | a female fairy in Irish folklore who wails and shrieks before the death in a family |
| rhombus | a parallelogram whose adjacent sides are unequal and whose angles are not right angles |
| alleviate | to lessen or relieve pain |
| mutilation | to maim; to render defective; to remove a material part |
| succession | one after another |
| optimistic | a belief that everything is ordered for the best |
| oncologist | one who studies cancer |
| intermittently | stopping and starting again in intervals |
| gouge | to scoop out; a chisel with a hollow blade |
| calligraphy | handwriting; especially fine penmanship |
| evidently | easy to see or understand |
| oblivious | unaware; causing forgetfulness |
| agonize | to struggle; torture |
| conga | a tall drum of Afro-Cuban origin that is played with the hands |
