Collection 1: What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?

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  1. superimpose
    place on top of
  2. poignant
    arousing powerful emotions, especially pity or sadness
  3. vignette
    a small illustrative sketch
  4. wizened
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  5. collective
    members of a cooperative enterprise
  6. expatriate
    a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
  7. beleaguer
    annoy persistently
  8. Zionism
    a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
  9. pensioner
    the beneficiary of a pension fund
  10. stubborn
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  11. complicate
    make less simple
  12. apparently
    seemingly; as far as one can tell
  13. fluent
    expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
  14. restore
    return to life; get or give new life or energy
  15. photogenic
    looking attractive in photographs
Created on Sun Jun 29 18:57:37 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 02 09:35:27 EDT 2014)

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