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Reading Vocabulary Unit 2
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a-buse, abused, abusing, nouns. Verb (used with an object) v. uh-byooz; n. uh-byoos to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority. 2. to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a horse; to abuse one's eyesight. 3. to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign. 4. to commit sexual assault upon. 5. Obsolete. to deceive or mislead abuse
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Baf-fle, verb. Baffled, baffling, noun baf-uhl to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.language 2. to frustrate or confound; thwart by creating confusion or bewilderment. 3. to check or deflect the movement of (sound, light, fluids, etc.).movement 4. to equip with a baffle or baffles. 5. Obsolete. to cheat; trick. baffle
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Bar-bar-ism, noun bahr-buh-riz-uhm 1. a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.barbarous 2. a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.barbarous 3. the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.language 4. such a form or construction: Some people consider “complected” as a barbarism barbarism
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Be-wil-der, verb (used with an object) bih-wil-der to confuse or puzzle completely; perplex: These shifting attitudes bewilder me. bewilder
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Ca-lam-i-ty, noun kuh-lam-i-tee 1. a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury. 2. grievous affliction; adversity; misery: the calamity of war. calamity
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De-ceive, verb (used with an object) dih-seev 1. to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter. 2. to be unfaithful to (one's spouse or lover). 3. Archaic. to while away (time). deceive
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Folk-lore, noun fohk-lawr, -lohr 1. the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people. 2. the study of such lore. 3. a body of widely held but false or unsubstantiated beliefs folklore
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Knoll, noun Nohl a small, rounded hill or eminence; hillock. knoll
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Sin-cer-i-ty, noun sin-ser-i-tee freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness sincerity
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Nov-el-ty, noun, novelties, adjective nov-uhl-tee 1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness: the novelty of a new job.noveljob 2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding: His sarcastic witticisms had ceased being an entertaining novelty.novel 3. an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory: a store catering to tourists who loaded up with souvenir pennants and other novelties. novelty
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