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Vocab chapter 1.
30 days vocab chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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maudlin | tearful or excessively sentimental |
pander | to cater to base desires |
gregarious | preferring the company of others to solitude |
effete | spent; exhausted; barren of energy; worn out by rich or effortless exhitence |
ascetic | practicing extreme self denial (monk) |
obsequious | servilely attentive; fawning |
sublimate | to direct energy from its primitive and destructive aim to one that is culturally or ethically higher and therefore socially acceptable |
wanton | living without regret or thought of the consequences |