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SadlierOxford Lvl F6
Sadlier Oxford Level F - Unit 6
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anomalous | abnormal, irregular |
| aspersion | a damaging statement about someone else, a slander |
| bizarre | extremely strange |
| brusque | abrupt, blunt, tactlesss |
| cajole | to sweet-talk, or to persuade through flattery |
| castigate | to severly punish |
| contrive | to carefully plam or scheme |
| demagogue | a leader who takes advantage of popular prejudices and false claims in order to gain power |
| disabuse | to set right in ideas or thinking |
| ennui | boredom |
| fetter | a chain or shackle (verb - to chain or shackle) |
| heinous | very wicked amd hateful |
| immutable | not changeable |
| insurgent | one who rebels or rises against authority |
| megalomania | a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, or other excess |
| sinecure | a position requiring no work, an easy job |
| surreptitious | secretive, trying to escape observation, made or accomplished by fraud |
| transgress | to sin, or go beyond a limit or boundary |
| transmute | to change from one nature or substance of form to another |
| vicarious | to perform, sufffer or experience through someone else |