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Lesson 3
Term | Definition |
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abstruse | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
affable | friendly, courteous, amiable |
audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
contrite | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant |
credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or preserve act |
deprecate | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
didactic | instructive, designed to teach |
dormant | inactive, sleeping |
enigmatic | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
erudite | scholarly |
exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
fuse | to mix or to join (usually by melting) |
immutable | unchanging |
incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
loathe | to detest |
mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate |
pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force |
pretentious | making an extravagant outward show, self-important |
prologue | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
recant | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke |
servile | overly submissive |
trepidation | fear, trembling, agitation |
vilify | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against |