Wordly Wise, Book 5, Lesson 19

Michael Misha
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  1. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  2. elegant
    refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior, or style
  3. erupt
    start suddenly
  4. eruption
    the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge
  5. excavate
    recover through digging
  6. excavation
    the act of digging
  7. expel
    eliminate
  8. fumes
    gases ejected from an engine as waste products
  9. fume
    a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
  10. molten
    reduced to liquid form by heating
  11. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  12. perish
    pass from physical life
  13. population
    the people who inhabit a territory or state
  14. populate
    inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
  15. prelude
    something that introduces what follows
  16. scald
    burn with a hot liquid or steam
  17. stupendous
    so great in size, force, or extent as to elicit awe
  18. suffocate
    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
  19. suffocation
    the condition of being deprived of oxygen
  20. tremor
    an involuntary vibration, as if from illness or fear
Created on Thu Feb 07 13:02:57 EST 2013

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