English Word study
Terms
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- 1. Filch
- to steal something opportunistically, usually a small item or amount of little value
- 2. Urbane
- showing sophistication, refinement, or courtesy
- 3. Redundant
- with the same meaning as a word used elsewhere in a passage and without a rhetorical purpose.
- 4. Gauche
- lacking grace or tact in social situations
- 5. Charlatan
- somebody who falsely claims to have special skill or expertise
- 6. Decant-
- to pour a liquid gently and carefully from one container to another so as not to disturb sediment
- 7. Heretical
- an opinion or belief that contradicts established religious teaching
- 8. Antithesis
- - the complete or exact opposite of something
- coalesce
- 1. to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one. 2. to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd. 3. to blend or come together: Their ideas coalesced into one theory.
- atrophy
- - a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage. 2. degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.