Saturday 4 June 2016

vocab- (4 june 2016)

WORDS
DEFINITION
EXAMPLE
Elude
Try to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc. ; evade.
Beautiful, daring and smart, Sophie managed to elude arrest on many occasions.
Embitter
To make bitter; cause to feel bitterness.
The situation is painful enough, let us not embitter it by words.
Empirical
Derived from or guided by experience, observation or experiment.
How do archaeologists wrap an empirical mind around capturing history?
Decimate
To destroy a great number or proportion.
The pollution could decimate the river’s thriving population of kingfisher.
Encompass
to form a circle about; encircle; surround , to include comprehensively.
A bleakness and melancholy seemed to encompass the spot on this sombre day.

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