vocab 11

shortness
- brevity
- noun
to conduct or bear oneself, behave; to be in agreement
- comport
- verb
expressing much in few words
- concise
- adj
sober or serious in manner, modest
- demure
- adj
a lessening in value; a belittling
- depreciation
- noun
to lower in value or quality; to wear away
- deteriorate
- verb
to tell, reveal; to make public
- divulge
- verb
free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding
- enlightened
- adj
to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible
- garble
- verb
one who puts forward a proposal; one who supports a cause of belief
- proponent
- noun
to shake, tremble; to trill
- quaver
- verb
to spring back, shrink
- recoil
- verb
to make up for, regain
- recoup
- verb
an unpleasant smell
- reek
- noun
unyielding, harsh, without pity
- relentless
- adj
a small stream
- rivulet
- noun
to spend foolishly, waste
- squander
- verb
detached or disconnected in sound or style
- staccato
- adj
a law
- statute
- noun
to prevent by acting first
- forestall
- verb

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vocab 11

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2011-04-27T11:43:40Z

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