wordly wise word list 3
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- asphyxiate
- v. To undergo asphyxia; suffocate
- desist
- v. To cease doing something; forbear
- efferminate
- adj. having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men.
- emapthy
- n. the attribution of one's own feelings to an object
- evanescent
- adj. vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
- Indite
- v. to write; compose
- intinerary
- n. a route or proposed route of a journey
- lien
- n. the right to take and hold or sell the property of a debtor as security or payment for a debt or duty.
- maxim
- n. a saying that widely accepted on its own merits
- motif
- n. a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
- palfrey
- n. a saddle horse, especially one for a woman to ride
- phalanx
- n. a body of heavily armed infantry of ancient Greece
- Svelte
- adj. slender and graceful in form
- tertiary
- adj. third in place, order, degree, or rank
- trenchant
- adj. forceful, effective, and vigorous