Unit 6: Novel Study: Nectar in a Sieve, Chapters 1–11

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  1. tranquil
    not agitated
  2. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  3. diminish
    decrease in size, extent, or range
  4. affliction
    a cause of great suffering and distress
  5. survey
    look over carefully or inspect
  6. ominously
    in a manner suggesting something bad will happen
  7. morosely
    in a sullen, moody manner
  8. emit
    expel, as a gas or odor
  9. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  10. alteration
    the act of making something different
  11. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  12. subdue
    make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
  13. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  14. tedious
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  15. provision
    a store or supply of something
  16. vicariously
    indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute
  17. incessantly
    without interruption
  18. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  19. indiscriminately
    in a random manner
  20. voluminous
    large in capacity or bulk
  21. compensation
    something given or received as payment or reparation
  22. pungent
    strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell
  23. conceive
    become pregnant
  24. acute
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  25. cavort
    play boisterously
  26. absorb
    consume all of one's attention or time
  27. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
  28. assuage
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  29. considerable
    large in number, amount, extent, or degree
Created on Tue Dec 15 08:23:13 EST 2020 (updated Tue Dec 22 12:30:54 EST 2020)

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