Wordly Wise list 7
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- Recondite
- Difficult to understand; abstrusive
- Repulse
- To repel; to drive back/to reject in a coll or distant manner/to disgust
- Undulate
- To form or move in waves/ to have a wavelike appearance or motion
- Upheaval
- A radical or violent change/ a forceful lifting or warping from beneath
- Etymology
- The history of a word/the science that studies such histories
- Seismic
- Caused by or having to do with earthquakes/having powerful or widespread effects
- Presage
- To foresee; to warn or indicate in advance
- Contiguous
- Sharing a boundary; being very close or in contact; adjacent
- Correlate
- To connect related things; to bring things into proper relation with one another
- Cavalier
- Showing an offhand or carefree disregard; arrogant
- Pulverize
- To crush or grind into dust or powder/To demolish
- Careen
- To rush headlong, often with a swerving or lurching motion/to cause to learn or tip to one side
- Archipelago
- A large group of islands/a body of water containing a large number or islands
- Kinetic
- Relating to motion
- Frenetic
- Wildly excited; frantic