Vocab #12

Verb: to examine or analyze

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To ____ an event.

Verb: to judge the quality of; assess; evaluate

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To ____ someone's efforts.

Verb: to try to test; put to trial

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To ____ one's strength; to ___ one's debating abilities.

Verb: to contain, as shown by analysis, a certain proportion of usually precious metal

Noun: a substance undergoing analysis or trial

Noun: a detailed report of the findings in assaying a substance

Verb: to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase

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His salary is ____ by a small inheritance.

Verb: to become larger

Verb: to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off

Verb: to differ in opinion, character, form, etc.; deviate

Verb: to turn aside or deviate, as from a path, practice, or plan

Verb: to deflect or turn aside

Noun: a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like

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A ___ in favor of big business.

Noun: party strife and intrigue; dissension

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An ear of ___ and treason.

Noun: a form of writing or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses them as an integral part of a fictional account

Noun: a novel, film, play, or other presentation in this form

Noun: a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion

Noun: (in Scandinavia) a bay

Adj: not potent; lacking power or ability

Adj: utterly unable (to do something)

Adj: without force or effectiveness

Adj: lacking bodily strength or physically helpless

Adj: (of a male) unable to attain or sustian a penile erection

Adj: existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute

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An ___ distrust of strangers.

Adj: inhering; infixed

Verb: to sink to a low or lower level

Verb: to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate

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The laughter ____.

Verb: to sink or fall to the bottom; settle; precipitate

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To cause coffee grounds to ____.

Adj: not slackening or abating; incessant

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____ noise; ____ attention.

Noun: something in fashion, as at a particular time

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Short hairdos were the ____ in the twenties.

Noun: popular currency, acceptance, or favor; popularity

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The book is having a great ____.

Verb: to hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (usually followed by from)

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To ____ from eating meat.

Verb: to refrain from casting one's vote

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A referendum in which two delegates _____.

Noun: the purging of the emotions or reliving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music

Noun: belief as to the truth of something

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To give ____ to a claim.

Noun: something giving a claim to belief or confidence

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Letter of ____.

Verb: to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel

Verb: to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete

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To ____ one's talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.

Verb: to become shattered or dispersed; be dispelled; disintegrate

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To sun shone and the mist ____.

Verb: to indulge in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure

Noun: something that has a real existence; thing

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Corporeal _____.

Noun: being or existence, especially when considered as distinct, independent, or self-contained

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He conceived of society as composed of particular ____ requiring special treatment.

Noun: essential nature

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The _____ of justice is universality

Noun: the branch of zoology dealing with insects.

Noun: a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like

Noun: a simple descriptive or narrative piece in verse or prose

Noun: material suitable for such a work

Noun: an episode or scene of idyllic charm

Noun: a brief or inconsequential romantic affair

Adj: eating both animal and plant foods

Adj: eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately

Adj: taking in everything, as with the mind

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An _____ reader.

Noun: the original or model on which something is based or formed

Noun: someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar

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She is the ___ of a student activist.

Noun: something analogous to another thing of a later period

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A Renaissance ____ of our modern public housing.

Verb: to create the prototype or an experimental model of

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To _____
a solar-power car.

Adj: moderately warm; lukewarm

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____ water.

Adj: characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm

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___ prose; the critics' ____ reception for the new play.