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His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. What does emaciated mean?
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the appearance conveyed by a person's face
disposition to do good
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
a feeling of excessive concern
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I have read with ardour (ardor) the accounts of the various voyages... What does ardour (ardor) mean in this sentence?
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learn or discover with confidence
characterized by hard work and perserverance
a feeling of strong eagerness
a journey organized for a particular purpose
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His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. What does emaciated mean?
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I have read with ardour (ardor) the accounts of the various voyages... What does ardour (ardor) mean in this sentence?
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Such were the professor's wordsarather let me say such the words of the fatea enounced to destroy me. What does enounced mean?
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...he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me. Galvanism means...
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...her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event. Prognosticated most likely means...
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None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. Enticement most likely means...
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They know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers... have indeed performed miracles. What does transmuted mean in this sentence?
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The inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
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"He began his lecture by a recapitulation of the history of chemistry and the various improvements made by difference men of learning..." What does recapitulation mean?
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"...a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge..." Multifarious most likely means...
