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What does the word 'emigration' refer to?
What does the word 'emigration' refer to?
What is the meaning of 'devoid'?
What is the meaning of 'devoid'?
What is a 'convoy'?
What is a 'convoy'?
What is the meaning of 'lucidity'?
What is the meaning of 'lucidity'?
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Study Notes
Vocabulary Building
- Surname refers to a family name
- Encumbered means hindered or restricted
- Insignificant means trivial or not important
- Profoundly means absolutely or in an unqualified way
Human Movement and Travel
- Emigration refers to leaving one area to settle in another
- Deportees are people who are expelled from a country
Writing and Storytelling
- A treatise is a written discussion of a topic
- Anecdotes are short, humorous stories
Emotions and Feelings
- Melancholy refers to sadness or depression
- Constraint means restrictions or limitations
Health and Wellness
- Provisions refer to necessary supplies, such as food, for sustenance
- Hermetically sealed means sealed against the entry or escape of air
- Pestilential refers to something likely to cause an epidemic disease
- Convalescent means returning to health after an illness
Social and Behavioral Traits
- Notorious means known widely and unfavorably; infamous
- Devoid means completely lacking or empty
- Monocle refers to an eyeglass for one eye
- Lucidity refers to clear understanding
Conflict and Violence
- Blandishments refer to coaxing by flattery
- Convoy refers to a group of vehicles traveling together
- Frenzy refers to violent mental agitation or wild excitement
- Torment means to cause physical pain or mental anguish
- Thrash means to beat or hit
Time and Sequence
- Latter refers to the second of two
Noise and Disorder
- Raucous means boisterous and disorderly
- Sabotage refers to treacherous action to defeat a cause
Emotions and Reactions
- Lamentation refers to grief or mourning
- Void means emptiness
- Emaciated means made thin due to starvation
- Elapsed means passed
Physical and Mental State
- Feebled means lacking strength, weak
- Evacuation refers to withdrawing troops or civilians
- Relentlessly means steadily; persistently
- Deprive means to take something away from
- Bereaved means left alone by death
Emotional States
- Apathy means lack of emotion or feeling
- Livid means ashen; pallid
- Dregs refer to the least desirable portions
- Vitality refers to vigor; energy
Limitations and Boundaries
- Tether refers to the limit of one's resources or endurance
- Contagion refers to harmful influence
- Plaintive refers to expressing sorrow
- Recesses refer to remote, secret places
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Test your knowledge of complex vocabulary words and their meanings. Improve your understanding of words like 'encumbered', 'profoundly', and 'hermetically'.
