Vocabulary list #5

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Venomous: capable of injecting venom 

Stolid: calm, dependable, & showing little emotion or animation

Hypnotized: produce a state of hypnosis in someone

Suspended: temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect

Transformed: make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance , or character of

Accuse: charge(someone) with an offense or crime

Anticipate: regard as probable; expect or predict

Fringe: an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material 

Melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Earnestly: with sincere and intense conviction; seriously

Dissolve: become or cause yo become incorporation into a liquid so as to form a solution

Aggravate: make(a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious

Illuminate: light up

Capillary: any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venues

Proboscis: the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the truck of an elephant or the snout of a tapir 

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