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Unit 9: Lit + Comp
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Term | Definition |
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Aesthetic | an appreciation of beauty |
Assimilate | become similar to one's environment |
Coalesce | mix together; fuse |
Conundrum | a difficult problem |
Differential | relating or showing a difference |
Empathy | understanding and entering another person's feelings |
Extol | to praise, glorify, or honor |
Hackneyed | overuse; repeated to often |
Incongruous | lacking in harmony or compatibility |
Jubilation | a feeling of extreme joy |
mawkish | insincerely emotional |
obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrong doing |
paragon | one having no equal; the perfect embodiment of a concept |
pragmatic | guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory |
prurient | characterized by lust |
rejuvenate | make younger or more youthful; given new energy |
servile | submissive |
surreptitious | marked by quite, caution, or secrecy |
umbrage | a feeling of anger caused by being offended |
vital | Absolutely necessary |