PTG List 4 Meanings PDF
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PTG List 4 Study online at quizlet.com/_750vte 1. dwindle to get smaller gradually 25. sparring 1 to engage in an argument without major...
PTG List 4 Study online at quizlet.com/_750vte 1. dwindle to get smaller gradually 25. sparring 1 to engage in an argument without major hostility or in jest 2. stand-off 1 a deadlock 2 to practice boxing. 2 a situation involving opposing parties in which no progressive can be made 26. affect 1 to have an effect on 2 to harm 3. counselors a person who gives advice 27. convulsions 1 violent disturbances 4. discord 1 dissatisfaction 2 a fit 2 disagreement 28. demonstration 1 a display 5. renounced to declare that you are giving something up 2 a public procession protesting about 6. rightfully deservedly something 7. sown to plant seeds 29. adventures a person who seeks adventure, especially 8. unquiet 1 restless for personal gain or enjoyment 2 agitated 30. contaminate to make something dirty, impure, diseased 3 anxious. 31. extremes 1 the highest or greatest point to which 9. visibly in a way which is clear or obviously seen something can be taken 10. well- someone whom people have a good opinion 2 either end of something respected of. 32. maze-like having a puzzling arrangement of paths, like 11. dabbing to touch gently with something soft. a maize 12. fancy (adj) 1 decorated 33. passageways 1 a narrow street 2 elaborate 2 a corridor (v) to imagine or think of something 34. persecution cruel treatment on the basis of religion, race, 13. gallant 1 brave etc 2 chivalrous 35. pragmatist a person who is cocerned only with 14. hiccups a high gulping sound made when your practical requirements or consequences breath is briefly interrupted. 36. repulsive disgusting 15. suburb an area of houses on the edge of the city or 37. self- having all of the necessary facilities large town contained 16. adolescent 1 a teenager 38. enormously hugely 2 a young person who is no longer a child 39. paternal fatherly but is not yet grown up 40. stimulated 1 to excite or interest 17. commoner 1 a person who is not a royal or a nobleman 2 to make more lively or active 2 a member of the general public. 41. concoction a mixture of various ingredients or elements, 18. immunity (n) safety from being punishment or from often original catching a disease (v) to make someone immune to infection , 42. mittens gloves with no separate part of each fingers usually by immunizing them 43. reluctance unwillingness to do something 19. in jest not seriously 44. resemblance similarity 20. insolently 1 impudently 45. revolting 1 to rebel 2 insultingly 2 to disgust or horrify. 21. interaction 1 the action of communication between two 46. ritual a regular ceremony or series of actions people or things 2 an exchange of words which is ofen angry 47. roars A loud,deep sound of the kind that a lion makes 22. malice 1 a desire to harm other people 2 ill will 48. vile very disgusting 23. repercussions an effect or reaction after an event 49. predicting to say or know what is going to happen before it happens 24. scrapper someone who likes to fight 50. sleighs a sledge, especially a large one pulled by horses. 51. uncanny 1 unnatural 2 mysterious 52. awe-struck filled with respect which issometimes combined with fear 53. emblazoned to display conspicuously 54. explosions 1 the exploading of a bomb, fireworks 2 a sudden or quick increase (e.g in population) 55. geared to be designed for a special purpose 56. navigation deciding and controlling the course that a ship or plain takes 57. bedridden being too ill to get out of bed. 58. grenades small bombs usually thrown by hand 59. resulted 1 to happen as a result of something 2 to have a particular result. 60. singed something that is slightly burned