Thursday, 16 October 2014

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#Vocab Mix
1 He even donates a poinsettia for the garden when we're ready to plant.

In this sentence, donates means:
waters
bestow
admires
locates

2
The wigwam these people were living in was not half covered: both wind
and rain passed through it.

In this sentence, wigwam means:
fort
hut
camp
igloo

3

extravagant means :
completely clear and finelacking in strength
or firmness
or resilienceproceeding in small stagesrecklessly
wasteful

4

With this pestilent infection our people were much discouraged, and
many of them died, the survivors being in great trouble and
perplexity.

In this sentence, pestilent means:

astringent
epidemic
nauseating
nondescript

5
Superstition is as ________ in this city's personality as the legends
of voodoo hexes and the omnipresent religious icons.

ingrained
remunerative
nebulous
corpulent

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