wordly wise unit 14
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- congenial
- adj. getting along with others, affable; suited to one's tastes, agreeable
- decipher
- v. to convert from a code or secret writing into ordinary language, to decode; to interpret the meaning of something puzzling, to solve
- dissect
- v. to cut in order to study; to study closely to analyze
- enigma
- n. anything that is puzzling, myseterious, or hard to figure out
- ineffectual
- adj. not bringing about the desired result, futile
- infallible
- adj. Incapable of making an error, never wrong; unlikely to fail or go wrong
- irrepressible
- adj. incapable of being controlled or held back
- luminous
- giving off light; clear, easy to understand
- millennium
- n. a period of one thousand years
- mire
- n. an area of wet, swampy ground, deep mud; v. unable to make progress
- pestilence
- n. a rapidly spreading and usually fatal disease
- stagnate
- v. to fail to develop, cahnge, or move
- sublime
- adj. great or noble in expression, thought or manner; splendid
- vie
- v. to compete for, as in a contest
- voluminous
- adj. having a great bulk of volume; ample