ENG6 - words & definitions (week 49)

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• abound existing in great numbers
• annals historical records
• automaton machine that behaves like a person
• badger to continually nag
• compound to add to
• drudgery dull, difficult work
• eminent of outstanding reputation
• implore beg for assistance
• indiscriminate carelessly chosen
• interminable unending
• matron a mature woman
• paradox seemingly self-contradictory situation
• perceive to come to have an understanding of
• prognosticate to be able to tall what will happen in the future
• realm someone's special field
• replete completely filled with
• steeped to be completely soaked in something
• technology related to science of engineering
• tinge small amount of
• voracious desiring huge amount
• acost to greet first
• adroit clever
• avid enthusiastic
• cajole coax, wheedle
• enhance to make greater
• fabricate to make up a lie
• felon criminal
• furtive sly
• gesticulate to use lively gestures
• hapless unlucky
• intrepid courageous
• irate angry
• laconic concise, pithy
• nuance shade of difference
• plethora overabundance
• pretext an excuse
• reticent uncommuniactive
• rudimentary basic, elementary
• throng great number of people
• vigilant alert

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