Vocabulary Fall List #5

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  1. Venomous: Secreting venom; capable of injecting venom by means of a bite or sting.
  2. Stolid: Calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.
  3. Hypnotized: The induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. 
  4. Suspended: Temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
  5. Transformed: Make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
  6. Accuse: Claim that (someone) has done something wrong.
  7. Anticipate: Regard as probable; expect or predict.
  8. Fringe: The front part of a person's hair cut so as to hang over the forehead; bangs.
  9. Melancholy: A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
  10. Earnestly: With sincere and intense conviction; seriously.
  11. Dissolve: Become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.
  12. Aggravate: Make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious.
  13. Illuminate: Light up.
  14. Capillary: Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
  15. Proboscis: The nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.

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