Hot Words: Lesson 29 Flashcards
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arid
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dry, lacking water
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acrid
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bitter, harsh
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aesthetic
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having to do with artistic beauty
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ascetic
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a person who refrains from indulging
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atheistic
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without a belief in any god
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ambiguous
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hard to understand; unclear; open to more than one interpretation
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ambivalent
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having conflicting feelings or opinions about something; unsure
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coalesce
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to have different opinions join together; fuse; converge
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convalesce
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to recover from an illness
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delusion
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a false opinion or belief
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allusion
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an indirect reference, often to a character or theme found in some work of literature
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illusion
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something unreal that gives the appearance of being real; a misconception