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NCIS S17E16: English vocabulary

Season 17, Episode 16CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

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  • dissolvable

    able to be dissolved in a liquid

  • numismatist

    a person who studies or collects coins and money

  • stubbed

    past tense and past participle of stub

  • ephemera

    things, especially printed items, that were made for short-term use and are now collected

  • sniffle

    to breathe in and out through your nose in short, quiet sounds

  • penmanship

    skill in writing neatly by hand

  • muffle

    to make a sound quieter or less clear

  • riddling

    hard to understand; mysterious or puzzling

  • worser

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • jangle

    to make a harsh ringing or clattering sound

  • indistinctly

    in a way that is not clear or easy to hear, see, or understand

  • odorless

    having no smell

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  • scoff

    to show that you think something is silly or not worth taking seriously

  • chrysanthemum

    a garden flower with brightly colored petals, often grown as an ornamental plant

  • saintly

    showing very good, kind, or moral behavior

  • silvering

    the process of turning silver in color

  • ingestion

    the act of taking food, drink, or another substance into the body

  • postmark

    the mark stamped on a letter or package by the post office, showing where and when it was mailed

  • stammer

    to speak with pauses or repeated sounds because of difficulty controlling your speech

  • snot

    thick mucus from the nose

  • hoarding

    the act of keeping and storing a lot of things, often too many

  • catalytic

    relating to a catalyst or to catalysis

  • provenance

    the place something comes from, or its earliest known history

  • gastrointestinal

    relating to the stomach and intestines

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