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Unit 7
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Acme | the highest point |
Attribute | a quality or charistics belonging to or associated with someone or something to assign to, credit with to regard the caused by or resulting from |
Belittle | to make something appear smaller than it is;to refer to in a way that suggest lack of importance or value |
Convey | to transport;to transmit;to communicate,make know;to transfer ownership or title to |
Doctrine | a belief,principle, or teaching; a system or such beliefs or principles a formulation of such beliefs or principles |
Excise | to remove by cutting an indirect tax on the manufacture sale or distribution of commodity or service |
Exotic | foreign charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual |
haggard | thin pale and careworn as a result of worry or suffering wild-looking |
jaunty | lively easy and carefree in manner smart or trim in appearance |
juntrue | a joining together the point at which two things are joined any important point time |
menial | lowly humble lacking importance dignity a person who does the humble and unpleasant task |
parry | to ward off fend off deflect evade avoid a defensive movement in fencing and other sports |
predatory | preying plundering or piratical |
ravage | to destroy lay waste ruin ruinous damage destruction |
stance | a way of holding the body an attitude or position on a issues |
tawdry | showy and flashy but lacking good taste |
turncoat | a person who switches to an opposing side or party |
unassuming | not putting on airs unpretentious modest |
wallow | to roll about lazy clumsy or helpless way to overindulge in to have in abundance a wet muddy or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath a state of moral or physical collaspe |
waver | to move to and from become unsteady to show lack of firmness or decision |