OAR (VOCABULARY)
Foster - answer promote, encourage, nurture
The teacher's task is to foster learning.
deleterious - answer harm, damage
Divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children.
craven - answer cowardly, lacking in courage
A craven abdication of his moral duty.
abdication - answer renouncing the throne, failure to fulfill a duty or responsibility
We are seeing an abdication of responsibility on the part of European government.
effusive - answeremotional, showing gratitude in an unrestrained heartfelt manner
An effusive welcome.
egregious - answerglaring, outstandingly bad, shocking
Egregious abuses of copyright.
delectation - answerenjoyment, pleasure, and delight
They had all manner of rock 'n' roll goodies for our delectation.
adept - answerexpert, very skilled or proficient at something
She is adept at cutting through red tape.
staid - answerserious, sedate, respectable, unadventurous
sentient - answeraware, able to feel or perceive things
She had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms.
impervious - answerimpenetrable, impermeable, unaffected, insusceptible
An impervious layer of basaltic clay.
ablutions - answerwashing, cleansing, bathing
The women performed their ablutions.
quagmire - answerswamp, marshland, awkward complex situation
A legal quagmire.
Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire.
ostentatious - answershowy, designed to impress, pretentious
A simple design that is glamorous without being ostentatious.
Foster - answer promote, encourage, nurture
The teacher's task is to foster learning.
deleterious - answer harm, damage
Divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children.
craven - answer cowardly, lacking in courage
A craven abdication of his moral duty.
abdication - answer renouncing the throne, failure to fulfill a duty or responsibility
We are seeing an abdication of responsibility on the part of European government.
effusive - answeremotional, showing gratitude in an unrestrained heartfelt manner
An effusive welcome.
egregious - answerglaring, outstandingly bad, shocking
Egregious abuses of copyright.
delectation - answerenjoyment, pleasure, and delight
They had all manner of rock 'n' roll goodies for our delectation.
adept - answerexpert, very skilled or proficient at something
She is adept at cutting through red tape.
staid - answerserious, sedate, respectable, unadventurous
sentient - answeraware, able to feel or perceive things
She had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms.
impervious - answerimpenetrable, impermeable, unaffected, insusceptible
An impervious layer of basaltic clay.
ablutions - answerwashing, cleansing, bathing
The women performed their ablutions.
quagmire - answerswamp, marshland, awkward complex situation
A legal quagmire.
Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire.
ostentatious - answershowy, designed to impress, pretentious
A simple design that is glamorous without being ostentatious.
