Cambridge English 9 List 8

Leopold (United States of America)
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  1. affinity
    a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
  2. blasphemous
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  3. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  4. circumspect
    careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
  5. corroboration
    confirmation that some fact or statement is true
  6. deplete
    use up, as resources or materials
  7. despot
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
  8. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
  9. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  10. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  11. homogenous
    all of the same or similar kind or nature
  12. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  13. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  14. laconic
    brief and to the point
  15. proliferation
    a rapid increase in number
  16. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  17. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
  18. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  19. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  20. zeal
    a feeling of strong eagerness
Created on Mon Apr 15 21:16:27 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Apr 16 16:27:21 EDT 2013)

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