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Zivan Robinson Chp. 3&4 Word List

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  1. Draconian
    imposing a harsh code of laws
  2. incontrovertible
    impossible to deny or disprove
  3. straiten
    squeeze together
  4. prismatic
    of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism
  5. insidiously
    in a harmfully insidious manner
  6. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  7. bureaucracy
    a government administered primarily by nonelective officials
  8. practical
    guided by experience and observation rather than theory
  9. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  10. languorous
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  11. idyll
    a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
  12. catastrophe
    a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  13. Inquisition
    a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
  14. inconceivably
    to an inconceivable degree
  15. impenetrable
    not admitting of passage into or through
  16. effusive
    uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
  17. defusing
    the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)
  18. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  19. comeuppance
    a usually negative outcome or fate that is well deserved
  20. joie de vivre
    a keen or exuberant enjoyment of life
  21. incontrovertibly
    in an obvious and provable manner
Created on 九月 11, 2011 (updated 九月 11, 2011)

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