Vocab 41-60

3. keep from waste, loss or decay
7. ignorant; stupid person; dunce
8. previously, in an earlier period
9. to prevent the occurrence of
10. foreign, or strikingly unusual or strange
12. foretelling or predicting future event spurious: not genuine; false
15. subdued, kept from being circulated
16. to make or become better
17. interfere with or slow down the progress impediment: something that hinders or obstructs

1. done by secretive means
2. shy, timid
4. something that hinders or obstructs
5. peaceable or friendly relations
6. grumpy, disagreeable
11. foolish, lack of good sense
12. artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
13. quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time plagiarism: passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another
14. injury, damage or something that causes it