Vocabulary List 9 Flashcards

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Abyssal

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Impossible to comprehend; unfathomable

Of or reading to the bottom waters of the ocean depths

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Commodious or Commodiously

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Comfortably or conveniently spacious; roomy

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Didactic or Didactically or Didacticism

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Designed or intended to teach, especially excessively

Teaching or intending to teach moral lessons

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Enthrall or Enthralling or Enthalled

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To hold temporarily spellbound; charm, enchant, captivate

To hold in or reduce to slavery

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Hallmark

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A distinguishing characteristic, trait, or feature

A mark put on an article to indicate origin, purity, or genuiness

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Hew

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To strike with cutting blows (as with an ax)
To carve, shape, or smooth from a substance
To conform, adhere (to a code or principle)

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Inexorable or Inexorably

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Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless

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Jeopardize or Jepardy

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To expose to danger or risk

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Ponderous

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Of very great weight
Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
Oppressively or unpleasantly dull; lifeless

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Propitiate or Propitiation

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To render favorably inclined: to appease: to conciliate

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