10.2 Week 11
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- privation
- a lack of basic necessities (such as food, money, shelter)
- poach
- to trespass in order to hunt fish/game; to cook in a boiling liquid
- purloin
- to steal
- quandary
- a state of uncertainty in deciding between two options
- preoccupied
- absorbed in thought; distracted; already occupied
- qualm
- a feeling of sickness; uneasy about an action
- protract
- to lengthen in time
- reactionary
- extremely conservative (opposing change)
- pugnacious
- combative in nature; resorting to force or violence
- recompense
- to make amends for a damage or loss; a payment in return for a service
- quibble
- to argue by evading the truth about a topic by raising irrelevant objections
- procurement
- the act of obtaining/acquiring something
- pliant
- easily bent or flexed; easy to influence
- portentous
- foreboding or indicating evil to come; arrogant or pretentious
- pretension
- an allegation or claim; a pretentiousness or arrogance