UNIT 7 Flashcards
surfeit
an excessive amount
paucity
lack
copious
abundant
barren
sterile
capacious
having lots of room
scanty
barely enough
replete
completely filled
sparse
scattered (rozrzucony)
voluminous
having great size
desolate
deserted
diminutive
tiny
meager
inadequate
rarefy
to make less
rife
plentiful
tribulation
a cause of great trauble
despondent
lacking hope
doleful
depressed
anemic
anemiczny
malady
a disease
anguish
extreme suffering
dirge
a funeral song
blight
a diseased condition
affliction
a disorder causing suffering
elegy
a poem realting to death
epitaph
napis nagrobny
doldrums
persistent unhappiness
adversity
misfortune
etymology
to study the origin of words
semantics
the study of the meanings of words and symbols
entomology
the study of insects
fecund
fruitful
fallow
unused
desiccated
completely dried out
quagmire
difficult situation / bagno
bucolic
characteristic of the countryside
cultivate
to grow crops
barren
niezyzny
arid
extremely dry