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1. refection<\/strong> \u2014 the partaking of refreshment<\/p>\n

I did not want to interrupt their family <\/em>refection, so I merely took the warm apple pie from the windowsill and hurried off to the nearby woods to enjoy my own repast.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. brast<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic] past participle of \u201cburst\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he strove mightily against his foes until his heart fain would <\/em>brast, their numbers eventually overwhelmed the doughty knight.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. magniloquent<\/strong> \u2014 lofty or grandiose in expression; pompous; bombastic<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you see before you a man battered by fate, but not a whit cowed by these dark experiences,\u201d he said in his habitual <\/em>magniloquent style.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. ruth<\/strong> \u2014 compassion, pity<\/p>\n

I bless the <\/em>ruth I found at this house in my hour of need.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. linnet<\/strong> \u2014 European songbird of the finch family<\/p>\n

It dawned upon us that this debris was all that remained of the <\/em>linnet‘s nest, and just then we heard the bird\u2019s sweet song, as if to reassure us that all was well, that only twigs had been damaged.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. betimes<\/strong> \u2014 early<\/p>\n

Better you should discover <\/em>betimes that not all claims of friendship are true than to learn too late the dangers of a gullible trust.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. vicinage<\/strong> \u2014 neighborhood, vicinity<\/p>\n

It is from the defendant\u2019s <\/em>vicinage that the jury must be called.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. slavey<\/strong> \u2014 servant, often a hard-worked serving girl<\/p>\n

On the one hand, no more does one see a <\/em>slavey carrying coals to stoke the heater in great homes hour after hour; on the other hand, fewer jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. swank<\/strong> \u2014 to swagger, to make pretense of superiority<\/p>\n

He came <\/em>swanking in wearing leather ankle boots and bell-bottomed zebra print pants, smiling outrageously behind the huge purple lenses he affected.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. chiliasm<\/strong> \u2014 belief in the prophesied reign of Christ on earth for a thousand years<\/p>\n

<\/em>Chiliasm differs from other strains of millenarianism in its focus on the worldly realm of the Messiah.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. refection \u2014 the partaking of refreshment I did not want to interrupt their family refection, so I merely took the warm apple pie from the windowsill and hurried off to the nearby woods to enjoy my own repast.   2. brast \u2014 [archaic] past participle of \u201cburst\u201d Though he strove mightily against his foes … <\/p>\n

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