Mara, Daughter of the Nile

Tara S. (United States of America)
Chapter 1-3
24 words 30 learners

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  1. seethe
    foam as if boiling
  2. porter
    a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
  3. drover
    someone who drives a herd
  4. urchin
    a poor and often mischievous city child
  5. rank
    very offensive in smell or taste
  6. portentous
    puffed up with vanity
  7. unobtrusive
    not undesirably noticeable
  8. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  9. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  10. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  11. rogue
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  12. unguent
    preparation applied externally as a remedy or for soothing
  13. simper
    smile in an insincere, unnatural, or coy way
  14. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  15. gamin
    a boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
  16. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  17. unscrupulous
    without principles
  18. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  19. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  20. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  21. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  22. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult
  23. extrication
    the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
  24. quay
    wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
Created on Mon Jan 20 10:13:24 EST 2014

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