reading vocabs
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- ponderous
- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
- jovial
- Merry.
- prostrate
- render helpless or defenseless
- obscure
- make obscure or unclear
- abstinence
- act of refraining from
- defiance
- refusal to yield; resistance; V. defy; ADJ. defiant
- latent
- present but not yet noticeable or active; dormant; hidden; N. latency; CF. potential
- executor
- A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will.
- illustrious
- having or worthy of pride
- recede
- become faint or more distant
- alteration
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- odious
- hateful, vile
- facetious
- playfully humorous
- capacious
- large in capacity
- loiter
- hang about/around; stand idly about; linger
- blithe
- carefree and happy and lighthearted
- adamant
- not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course
- portly
- rather heavy or fat; stout