Mar 28 (7) Pat's words

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dilapidated
The hotel we stayed in was really dilapidated. a dilapidated old car/shed
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old and in poor condition
barren
We drove through a barren, rocky landscape
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unable to produce plants or fruit; unable to have children or young animals
piqued
The scientists were piqued because science and hard work made their colleague wealthy. She felt piqued at being excluded from the meeting.
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slightly angry, especially because someone has damaged your feeling of being proud of yourself:
savory savoury
a savoury dish/sauce/flavour savoury dumplings/pancakes A pie can be sweet or savoury. If you say that something is not savoury, you mean that it is not pleasant or socially acceptable: That hotel doesn't have a very savoury reputation.
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food is salty or spicy and not sweet in tast
pungent
the pungent whiff of a goat I sat down to a cup of wonderfully pungent Turkish coffee.
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smelling or tasting very strong and sharp:
The back is broken
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The worst has gone already
a range of mountains
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mountain chain
vary
Salary scales vary between states/from state to state/according to state/with each state. The samples varied in quality but were generally acceptable.
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If things of the same type vary, they are different from each other
year after year
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not equal to step by step
to scream at
Mrs Brown screamed (= shouted angrily) at Joel for dropping the test-tube.
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yell at somebody
wilderness
a beautiful mountain wilderness Alaska is the last great wilderness.
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an area of land that has not been used to grow crops or had towns
to go kayaking
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to * kayaking

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