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Vocab Workshop E/3
Vocabulary Workshop E Unit 3
Question | Answer |
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adversary | an enemy, opponent |
alienate | To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey |
artifice | a skillful or ingenius device; a clever trick or skill |
coerce | to compel, force |
craven | (adj.) cowardly(n.) coward |
culinary | related to cooking or the kitchen |
delete | to erase, wipe out, cut out |
demise | a death, especially of a person in a lofty position |
exhilarate | to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to |
fallow - adjective | plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow |
fallow - noun | land left unseeded |
fallow - verb | to plow but not seed |
harass | to disturb, worry; to trouble with repeated attacks |
inclement | stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
muse | to think about in a dreamy way,to ponder |
negligible | so unimportant that it can be discarded |
perpetuate | to make permanant or long lasting |
precedent | an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action |
punitive | inflicting or aiming at punishment |
redress - verb | to set right, remedy |
redress - noun | relief from wrong or injury |
sojourn - noun | a temporary stay |
sojourn - verb | to stay for a time |
urbane | refined in manner or style, suave |