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Chapter 8 Vocab Energizers
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| zealous | extremely active, eager, devoted |
| candid | honest, truthful, straightforward |
| posthumous | occuring after death |
| enthrall | charm, fascinate, please greatly |
| parasite | plant or animal that lives on or in another and feeds off this other's body; a person receiving support without giving anything useful or meaningful in return |
| chagrin | humiliation, disappointment, irritation |
| cant | insincere talk; special language of a social class, trade, or profession |
| ephemeral | short-lived, fleeting, lasting a very short time |
| dexterous | skillful, clever |
| sinister | threatening, wicked, evil |
| bi | two, twice |
| bilingual | able to use two languages equally, or nearly equally, well; pertaining to, speaking, or written in two languages |
| bigamy | marriage to two people at the same time |
| biped | two-footed animal |
| bilateral | having or concerning two sides, parties, countries, etc. |
| bifocals | eyeglasses with lensesthat have two sections for correcting both close and distant vision |
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