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las palabras de abril (lesson 11??)

  • abet: to encourage or to assist; to aid

  • agile: able to move quickly and easily

  • antidote: medicine or remedy

  • ascertain: to learn with certainty

  • benevolence: kindness; generosity; charity

  • desolate: deserted; without inhabitants

  • din: loud and discordant noises

  • dissuade: to advise against; to talk out of

  • distend: to expand; to swell; to dilate

  • enervation: weakness

  • fitful: irregular; not consistent

  • inert: inactive; dormant

  • eulogy: high praise or commendation

  • indelible: permanent; cannot be erased

  • malevolence: act of wishing ill will on someone

  • obliterate: to remove all traces of; to destroy

  • ornate: excessively decorated

  • paucity: scarcity; fewness; dearth

  • piety: devotion and reverence to God

  • precarious: dangerous; risky; not secure

  • prosaic: commonplace; dull; banal

  • quiescent: quiet; still; inactive

  • scintillating: sparkling; shining; flashing

  • squalid: filthy in appearance; sordid

  • vexation: discomfort or distress