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A More Perfect Union - Barach Obama speech

created 5/11/2008 : last updated 5/22/2008
by Augusto T.(Rio de Janeiro Brazil)Top 10 Word Lister
Highlighted vocabulary from the speech
ail
to make ill
amass
to accumulate
bawdy
off-colour, "bawdy jokes"
bogus
false, fake, phoney
bondage
slavery
chasm
gap
cherish
to love, to care
constricted
narrowed
crank
bad-tempered
cringe
to feel embarassed; to show fear
den
pt. cova
disown
V. pt. repudiar
fodder
animal food
haunt
(V) pt. assombrar
jarring
disagreeable
languish
to weaken
Also appears in: Word bag, desire, negative, venerate
parchment
high quality paper (made of the thin dried skin of some animals)
peddle
to sell things, to spread information(disapproving)
pervasive
permeating
pew
(N) a church bench
pounce
to attack
rafter
pt. viga
relish
(v) to savour; (s) a kind of sauce
sear
to burn
set forth
to express
shuttered
closed off with shutters
snippet
(N) a piece of something
squarely
solidly
stain
(V) pt. manchar
stalemate
deadlock
stalwart
loyal
truism
(N) an obvious truth
Also appears in: GRE Barron's part 8, k4, T-list, Mike list
unyielding
refusing to give away
utter
to express
Also appears in: Say lists, ways to say, utter, VT Words 1e
woodwork
carpentry
claw
to scratch with claws
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