Wordly Wise 7 Chapter 5
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- acrimony
- bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility
- affinity
- attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship
- ambivalent
- having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive
- cessation
- a stopping, either final or temporary
- emaciated
- very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny
- enclave
- a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory
- engender
- to bring into being; to produce
- exacerbate
- to make more severe, bitter, or violent
- illicit
- not allowed, improper, or unlawful
- indigenous
- naturally living or growing in a certain area; native
- inexorable
- not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless
- infatuated
- filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire
- insatiable
- never satisfied; greedy
- poignant
- painfully moving, affecting, or touching
- proselytize
- to convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause