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Lesson 14 EngIish I Honors Vocab
Question | Answer |
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assuage | to make less intense or severe; to calm or satisfy |
pedestrian | undistinguished; ordinary |
prudent | sensible and careful; exercising good judgment |
innocuous | having no ill effects; harmless |
zeal | enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal or activity |
enhance | to make greater or improved in size, value, or effectiveness |
prodigious | great in size or force; enormous |
furtive | done in a secretive or hidden manner; sly or sneaky |
verbose | using or containing a great number of words |
fanatic | a person marked by extreme enthusiasm for a cause, ideal, or activity |
contrite | feeling regret for a fault or offense; remorseful |
supercilious | having or showing arrogant superiority |
torpid | deprived of motion or feeling; lethargic; apathetic |
paucity | small in number or amount; scarcity |
rescind | to make void or null |