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Meanings of difficult words from the lesson "The Cat and the Pain-killer":
Numbers | Word | Meanings |
1 | Hoop | Ring. |
2 | Infatuated | Admiration, inspired with an intense but short lived passion or admiration for someone or something. |
3 | Remedies | Medication. |
4 | Blister-plasters | A plaster that does not heal but reduces the blister. |
5 | Proclaiming | Announce publicly. |
6 | Summersets | A forward roll in which the head is placed on the ground, an acrobatic movement either forward or backward in which the body rolls end over end, makes a complete revolution. |
7 | War-whoop | A yell uttered in making an attack. |
8 | Petrified | Terrified, extremely frightened. |
9 | Winced | Flinch. |
10 | Numbskull | Fool. |
11 | Gravity | Pull. |
12 | Thimble | A small metal or plastic cap with a closed end. |
13 | Plunges | act of casting or thrusting forcibly or suddenly into something liquid. |
14 | Quack | A fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill. |
15 | Professing | Claiming often falsely, that one has a quality or feeling. |
16 | Frenzy | A state of uncontrolled excitement. |
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