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KEY:  1–e, 2–g, 3–d, 4–a, 5–c, 6–b, 7–f





  Can you work with the words? (II)


    1. conviviality                                           a. release of the egg


    2. vivisection                                            b. a “high liver”

    3. antivivisectionist                                     c. experimentation on live animals

    4. ovulation                                              d. one who is a connoisseur of good food


    5. vitality                                               e. effervescence; joy of living

    6. joie de vivre                                          f. one who enjoys food

                                                              g. one who eats greedily; one who is greedy
    7. ennui
                                                                  (as for punishment, etc.)


    8. bon vivant                                             h. boredom

    9. gourmand                                               i. congeniality

  10. gourmet                                                 j. strength, vigor


                                                              k. one who is against experimentation on
  11. glutton
                                                                  live animals
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