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Nova S47E4: English vocabulary

Season 47, Episode 4Documentary

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  • synchrony

    the state of happening at the same time

  • ruminate

    to think about something for a long time, often in a worried or serious way

  • sleepiness

    the state of feeling sleepy

  • rumination

    the act of thinking deeply about something for a long time

  • mishmash

    a confused mixture of different things

  • pinking

    to cut the edge of fabric with pinking shears

  • worser

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • irritability

    the quality of being easily annoyed

  • restful

    making you feel rested and relaxed

  • recur

    to happen again, especially regularly

  • deafening

    very loud and hard to hear over

  • ratting

    the act of hunting or trapping rats

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  • awry

    not going as planned; wrong or badly off course

  • agitate

    to make someone feel worried or upset

  • caveat

    a warning or condition that limits or changes something

  • muscling

    the use of force or pressure to get something

  • pharmacology

    the study of drugs and how they work in the body

  • trappings

    the outward signs or objects that go with a particular role, status, or way of life

  • invulnerable

    impossible or very hard to harm, damage, or defeat

  • baffle

    to confuse or puzzle someone

  • fascinate

    to attract and hold someone's attention or interest strongly

  • asymmetric

    having parts that do not match each other in shape, size, or position

  • paralyze

    to make a person or part of the body unable to move

  • fragmented

    broken into small parts or pieces

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