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Flashcards by Steve Stewart, updated more than 1 year ago
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| affected | definition: (adj) acted upon; influenced; influenced in a harmful way; impaired, harmed, or attacked, as by climate or disease; (of the mind or feelings) impressed; moved; touched |
| cajole | definition: (verb) to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax |
| critique | definition: (noun) an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review; a criticism or critical comment on some problem, subject, etc. (verb) to review or analyze critically |
| empathy | definition: (noun) the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another; the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself |
| impute | definition: (verb) to attribute or ascribe; to attribute or ascribe (something discreditable), as to a person. |
| morose | definition: (adj) gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood; characterized by or expressing gloom |
| portent | definition: (noun) an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous; threatening or disquieting significance |
| preferable | definition: (adj) more desirable |
| prosaic | definition: (adj) commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative |
| spectrum | definition: (noun) a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence |
| sustain | definition: (verb) to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure; to bear (a burden, charge, etc.); to undergo, experience, or suffer (injury, loss, etc.); endure without giving way or yielding |
| terminate | definition: (verb) to bring to an end; put an end to; to occur at or form the conclusion of; to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of |
| terrestrial | definition: (adj) pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planet; of or relating to land as distinct from water. |
| venerate | definition: (verb) to regard or treat with reverence; revere |
| viscous | definition: (adj) of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive |
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