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Enchanting Summer Home by the River - Week 17 Vocabulary

Explore the beauty of a river or lakeside location for your dream summer home in this vocabulary week 17. Discover words like attire, avail, cronies, and more. Immerse yourself in the language of merging, enmity, fervent appeals, and gaunt figures.

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Enchanting Summer Home by the River - Week 17 Vocabulary

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  1. Vocabulary Week 17 Campagna

  2. abut • Land that abuts a river or lake is considered a highly desirable location on which to build a summer home.

  3. abut • V. to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up

  4. attire • The special attire that firefighters wear helps to protect them from flames and smoke. • The children happily attired their stuffed animals in holiday outfits and accessories.

  5. attire • N. clothes, apparel, garb; v. to dress, adorn

  6. avail • Be sure to avail yourself of all the services that the school library has to offer. • I tried repeatedly to contact my neighbor by phone, but to absolutely no avail.

  7. avail • V. to be of use or benefit; n. use, benefit, or value

  8. crony • We have been cronies ever since we met in the second grade.

  9. crony • N. a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy

  10. cryptic • The letter to the editor was so cryptic that I couldn’t be certain what the writer had actually intended to say.

  11. cryptic • Adj. puzzling, mystifying

  12. merge • Driving down the road, I merged into the road less traveled.

  13. merge • V. to combine to form a single entity

  14. enmity • Despite a long, close, and tense match, the defeated player felt no enmity toward the new champion.

  15. enmity • N. hatred, ill-will

  16. fervent • The president delivered a fervent plea for tolerance and unity.

  17. fervent • Adj. very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot

  18. gaunt • We left food and water for the gaunt alley cat

  19. gaunt Adj. thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren

  20. infiltrate • Some of our men infiltrated the enemy’s camp and captured their leader.

  21. infiltrate • V. to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily

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