Wonderful Words for 500 Please! Flashcards
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Aa
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(noun) a kind of volcanic lava that forms jagged masses with a light frothy texture; in an unrelated sense (‘a stream’) aa is the first entry in the Oxford English Dictionary
abaya
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Squalid
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(adj) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect (used to refer to a place)
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Boffola
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(noun) a joke or a line in a script meant to get a laugh
adj) hearty and unrestrained (describes a laugh
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Adumbrate
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(verb) report or represent in outline, to explain vaguely, to sketch out in a vague way