1100 words you need to know week 11

Toms H. (Latvia)
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  1. coerce
    cause to do through pressure or necessity
    to force/piespiest
  2. comprehensive
    including all or everything
    thorough/plašs
  3. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
    guess/minējums
  4. corroborate
    give evidence for
    confirm, support/apstiprināt
  5. domicile
    housing that someone is living in
    home/juridiskā adrese
  6. elapse
    pass by
    to slip by/paiet
  7. fruitless
    unproductive of success
    useless/neauglīgs
  8. garbled
    lacking orderly continuity
    confused, mixed up/sagrozīts
  9. inundate
    fill or cover completely, usually with water
    to flood/applūdināt
  10. lax
    without rigor or strictness
    careless, negligent/vaļīgs
  11. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
    sensational/traģisks
  12. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
    careful/sīkumains
  13. obviate
    do away with
    do away with, eliminate/izvairīties
  14. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
    calm, hard to rouse to action/flegmatisks
  15. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
    moving, painful to the feelings/aizkustinošs
  16. quip
    a witty saying
    joke/asprātība
  17. rash
    imprudently incurring risk
    too hasty, reckless/nepārdomāts
  18. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
    optimistic
  19. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
    occasional/izkaisīts
  20. zealous
    marked by active interest and enthusiasm
    enthusiastic/cītīgs
Created on Mon Jan 20 12:45:29 EST 2014 (updated Thu Jan 23 16:15:05 EST 2014)

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