vocab 2
05 Jul 2008 on Learning
- concede - To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit.
- antecedent - ancestors, one that precedes another
- declesion - decline
- schistosomiasis - Any of a group of diseases caused by flatworm parasites of the genus Schistosoma that infest the blood of humans and other mammals
- debilitate - To sap the strength or energy of; enervate.
- reticent - Reluctant; unwilling.
- pugnacious - tough, ready and eager to fight
- stilted - artificially formal
- dioxins - Any of several carcinogenic or teratogenic heterocyclic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in petroleum-derived herbicides.
- bucolic - Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic
- vintners - A wine merchant.