WORDS
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DEFINITION
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EXAMPLE
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Elude
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Try to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery,
etc. ; evade.
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Beautiful, daring and smart, Sophie managed to elude
arrest on many occasions.
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Embitter
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To make bitter; cause to feel bitterness.
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The situation is painful enough, let us not embitter it by
words.
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Empirical
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Derived from or guided by experience, observation or
experiment.
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How do archaeologists wrap an empirical mind around
capturing history?
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Decimate
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To destroy a great number or proportion.
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The pollution could decimate the river’s thriving
population of kingfisher.
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Encompass
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to form a circle about; encircle; surround , to include
comprehensively.
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A bleakness and melancholy seemed to encompass the spot on
this sombre day.
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Saturday, 4 June 2016
vocab- (4 june 2016)
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