11A Handout Vocabulary Flashcards

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explore

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To try to understand something by looking at it in detail.

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immense

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Very big.

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luminous

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Giving off light; glowing.

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desperately

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With a sense of extreme urgency, need, or despair.

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vast

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Very large in size or area.

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colossal

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Very big.

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revise

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To change or make different.

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loomed

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To have appeared or come into view, often as a very large, dim, or twisted shape.

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nonfiction

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Written works that are not fiction.

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summary

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A short and usually comprehensive statement of what has been previously stated.