Keke's+Vocabulary

 ||  extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. || 1. gaunt- –adj.  ||  free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen || 2. immaculate- adjective   ||  a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">3. curtail- noun  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.    ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">4.digress –verb    <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Def.    || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.      ||

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">5. intermittent –adjective  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Def.    || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people     ||

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">6. rigor –noun  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Def.    || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair      ||

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">7. succumb-verb <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">8. covert –adjective  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">9. cynic-noun <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">10. demise –noun
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Def. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">concealed; secret; disguised  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Def.    || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.     ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Def. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">death or decease. ||