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UNIT 7 Feeling good

ascertain

Learn / find out / determine / discover / settle / decide / make clear / clarify / establish

The medical trial will ascertain the effectiveness of the new products
thorough

Sense: Painstaking

Exact / meticulous / precise / accurate / careful

You must be willing to undergo thorough medical examination.


Strain

Sense: Pressure

Tension / stress / pressure

This massage relieves the physical strain and stretches your limbs.
Limb

Sense: A bodily appendage

Arm / leg / appendage / member

This massage relieves the physical strain and stretches your limbs.
eerie

Ghostly / weird / spooky / frightful / freaky (slang / bi!arre / strange / creepy (slang / mysterious / frightening / scary / spectral / supernatural / unearthly / hair"raising / menacing / sinister / disturbing / otherworldly

The silence in the therapy room was a bit eerie.


tilt

Sense: To incline

set at an angle / lean / bend

Doctor Iannis tilted the old mans head.


peer

Sense: To incline

#nspect / scrutini!e / see / examine /look

Doctor Iannis tilted the old mans head and peered into the ear.
undergrowth

$nderwood / underbrush

He pressed aside the undergrowth of stiff grey ears.


stiff

Sense: Not easily bent

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%igid / firm / tense / inflexible / thick / stubborn / obst&nate / unbending He pressed aside the undergrowth of stiff grey ears.

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Cankerous

Sense: Causing corruption

$lcerous / sore / infectious / cancerous (in a figurative way

He removed the cankerous coating of wax.


behold

'bserve / look at / see / view / regard

He removed the cankerous coating of wax and beheld a pea.


toddler

" a young child( usually one between the ages of one and two and a half

He imagined a toddler with a gnarled face and a stoop.


gnarled

Twisted / contorted / crooked

He imagined a toddler with a gnarled face and a stoop.


stoop

hunch

He imagined a toddler with a gnarled face and a stoop.


cram

Sense: To stuff

'verfill / compress / press / stuff / s)uee!e in

He crammed the pea into his ear.


chuckle

Giggle / smile / laugh

The doctor chuckled: You must have been a very annoying little boy.

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