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More Vocab Words

::: modish - fashionable; conforming to the current fashion
::: alleviate - relieve (pain)
::: knack - special talent; art
::: asperity - sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter
::: dissection - analysis; cutting apart in order to examine
::: array - marshal; draw up in order; arrange in order; clothe splendidly; adorn; N: fine clothes; ordered group; Ex. in battle array
::: rebus - representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols; puzzle in which pictures or letters stand for words; Ex. ``R U 18'' is a rebus for ``Are you 18''.
::: cunning - clever in deceiving; sly; N: cleverness in deceiving; deceit
::: swarthy - (of a skin or complexion) dark; dusky; Ex. swarthy Italian ?
::: draught - current of air (through a room or to a fire); act of pulling roads; act of swallowing liquid or amount of liquid swallowed at a time