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Discovery Library

Unappealing

Adjective: Not attractive or pleasing.
chosen by Max (7 ST)

Pulchritude

Noun: Physical beauty.
chosen by Gabriella (8 TN)

Anaesthetic

Noun:  A drug that makes you fall asleep.
chosen by Comert (7 ST)

Menagerie

Noun: A collection of wild animals kept for exhibition.
chosen by James (7 ST)

Confusticate

Verb: Perplex, confound or confuse.  It blends together the words “confuse” and “complicate”.
chosen by Atheminee (7 MD)

Epipelagic

Adjective:  Relating to, or inhabiting the upper zone of the ocean from just below the surface to 100 metres deep.
chosen by William (8 NA)

Pusillanimous

Adjective: It means that you are timid or cowardly.
chosen by Aurora (8 NA)

Egocentric

Adjective: A self-centred person who thinks only of themselves instead of others.
chosen by Laine (7DV)

War Memorial Library

Pancomputationalism

Noun:  The theory of how the universe is a self-calculating computer and all energy and matter can be described digitally.
chosen by Mr Carrick (Science)

Exocytosis

Noun:  The release of substances from a cell via membranous vesicles.
chosen by Alfie (12 BN)

Inscrutable

Adjective: Mysterious or enigmatic. 
chosen by Maria-Sophia (12 BA)

Frowzy (or Frowsy)

Adjective: Untidy or unkempt in appearance; shabby.
chosen by Miss Gallagher (English)

Asinine

Adjective: Foolish, lacking sense or knowledge.
chosen by Harry (12 MS)

Ubiquitous

Adjective: Being or seeming to be everywhere at once.
chosen by Charlie (12 MS)

Polynominal
Adjective: An algebraic expression consisting of the sum of a number of terms e.g. x4+x³+3x²+7x+10
chosen by Peshali (12 GD)

Incandescent

Adjective: 1. Emitting light as a result of being heated.  2. Full of strong emotion; passionate.
chosen by Mrs Nolan (Librarian)