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Unit 4: Two Left Feet, Two Left Hands, and Too Left on the Bench

Learn these words from the autobiography by David Lubar (Inside: Level B, Unit 4).

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  1. inauspicious
    presaging ill fortune
  2. disaster
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  3. unpromising
    not likely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment
  4. encounter
    a casual meeting with a person or thing
  5. assignment
    an undertaking that you have been told to perform
  6. single out
    select from a group
  7. total
    complete in extent or degree and in every particular
  8. nerd
    a student ridiculed as being boringly studious
  9. puzzled
    filled with bewilderment
  10. realize
    be fully aware or cognizant of
  11. arrive
    reach a destination
  12. snicker
    laugh quietly
  13. clueless
    totally uninformed about what is going on
  14. score
    assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
  15. merely
    and nothing more
  16. glorious
    characterized by grandeur
  17. mock
    treat with contempt
  18. shudder
    tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
  19. accept
    consider or hold as true
  20. glory
    a state of high honor
  21. foul
    not hit in fair territory, in baseball
  22. hurl
    throw forcefully
  23. countless
    very many; too numerous to be numbered
  24. humiliating
    causing embarrassment or awareness of your shortcomings
  25. survive
    continue to live through hardship or adversity
  26. fencing
    the art or sport of fighting with swords
  27. disastrous
    having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
  28. determined
    characterized by great firmness of purpose
  29. inherit
    receive by genetic transmission
  30. dazzle
    amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit, intellect or skill
Created on Tue Aug 02 13:38:53 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 10 13:47:39 EDT 2016)

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