cruel or inhumane treatment. Don't have an account yet? c. Brian made numerous* vain attempts to reach the doctor by telephone. 40 504 ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL WORDS 7. easily understood as well as evident and apparent 8. save and in its origin bears a relation to family 9. a dream or hope as well as sight 10. one of a kind and also rare or without equal Answer key, p. 196 E. 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acute mental or physical pain, a person who says one thing and does another, a detail that is considered insignificant, a state of commotion and noise and confusion, exhibiting the qualities that identify a group or kind, one who is at a disadvantage and expected to lose, causing or fraught with or showing anxiety, marked by no noteworthy or significant events, relating to a city or densely populated area, having an exaggerated sense of self-importance, well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force, someone who willfully destroys or defaces property, a visible suspension in the air of particles of a substance, a category of things distinguished by a common quality, unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope, a blood vessel that carries blood toward the heart, furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or escape, findings of a jury on issues submitted to it for decision, any of various small animals or insects that are pests, the particular occupation for which you are trained, marked by keen caution and watchful prudence, social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting, the act of rotating in a circle or spiral, demonstrating striking cleverness and humor, Created on December 5, 2012