Lesson 28

Ellen L. (United States of America)
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  1. dwindle
    become smaller or lose substance
  2. swindle
    deprive of by deceit
  3. hurdle
    a light barrier that competitors must leap over in races
  4. gristle
    tough elastic tissue found in meat
  5. thistle
    any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
  6. guzzle
    drink greedily or as if with great thirst
  7. nuzzle
    gently rub or push one's nose or face against something
  8. tattle
    divulge confidential information or secrets
  9. tussle
    disorderly fighting
  10. fickle
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  11. barnacle
    marine crustacean with feathery food-catching appendages
  12. clavicle
    bone linking the scapula and sternum
  13. pinnacle
    a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
  14. scruple
    an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
  15. grapple
    work hard to come to terms with or deal with something
  16. maim
    injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
  17. culpable
    deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious
  18. fallible
    wanting in moral strength, courage, or will
  19. gullible
    naive and easily deceived or tricked
  20. preamble
    a preliminary introduction, as to a statute or constitution
  21. rumble
    utter or emit low, dull, resonant sounds
  22. syllable
    a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
  23. syllabus
    a summary or outline of what will be covered in an academic course
  24. huddle
    a disorganized and densely packed crowd
  25. panhandle
    beg for money from people on the street
  26. bedraggle
    make wet and dirty, as from rain
  27. draggle
    make wet and dirty, as from rain
  28. boggle
    overcome with amazement
  29. entangle
    cause to twist together or be caught in a snarled mass
  30. rectangle
    a parallelogram with four right angles
  31. shingle
    building material used as siding or roofing
  32. bamboozle
    conceal one's true motives from
  33. embezzle
    appropriate fraudulently to one's own use
  34. muzzle
    forward projecting part of the head of certain animals
  35. corpuscle
    an unattached cell such as a red or white blood cell
  36. heckle
    challenge aggressively
  37. sickle
    an edge tool for cutting grass or crops
  38. reap hook
    an edge tool for cutting grass or crops
  39. follicle
    any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity
  40. receptacle
    a container that is used to put or keep things in
  41. quadruple
    having four units or components
  42. lapel
    a fold of fabric below the collar of a coat or jacket
  43. shrapnel
    shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
  44. infidel
    a person who does not acknowledge your god
  45. dismal
    causing dejection
  46. pistil
    the female, ovule-bearing part of a flower
  47. gerbil
    a small burrowing rodent often kept as a pet
Created on Tue Jan 12 11:58:04 EST 2010

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