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Short But Challenging Words......
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| bane: cause of death, ruin or distress. | |
| deign: to think it beneath one's dignity; condescend; give. | |
| eke: to supplement; to manage ot make a living with difficulty; to use frugally. | |
| knell: to ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by a mournfull ringing; an omen of death or failure. |
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| mete: to allot, distribute or apportion. | |
| moot: discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless. |
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| mulct: to punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deceit. | |
| plumb: perfectly vertical; directly; to test or sound iwth a plumb line (measure); to discover the facts of; to fathom, solve or understand. |
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| quail: to draw back in fear; loseheart or courage; cower. | |
| roil: to make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to sitir up or agitate; to make angry; rile. | |
| ruck: a heap or stack; a large quantity or crowd; mass of ordinary people or things; common run. |
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| shunt: to move or turn to one side; to shift or switch from one track to another. | |
| svelte: slender and graceful; suave; polished. | |
| thrall: a slave or bondman; a person under the moral or psychological domination of something; slavery. |
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| tryst: an appointment, as by lovers; to meet. | |