Friday, January 18, 2019

1/18 vocab

This week I have read from pages 72-147 in the book Coach, by Andrew Blauner.

Dismal (74): causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy:

Aforementioned (81): cited or mentioned earlier or previously.

Engorged (85): to swallow greedily; glut or gorge.

Kinship (88): the state or fact of being of kinfamily relationship.

Idyll (90): brief or inconsequential romantic affair.

Provocation (96): something that incites, instigates, angers, or irritates.

Multiradial (107): having spokes, bars, lines, etc., arranged like radii, as a machine.

Provenance (113): place or source of origin:

Protract (117): to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.

Adulation (133): excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.

Antithesis (135): opposition; contrast:





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