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unit 3
vocab
Term | Definition |
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abominate | to have an intence dislike or hatred |
acculturation | the modtification of social patters, traits or structures of one group or socity by contact with those of another |
adventitious | resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character |
ascribe | to assign or refer to |
circuitous | roundabout, not direct |
commiserate | to sympathize with, have pity or sowrow for, share a feeling of distress |
enjoin | to derect or order |
expedite | to make easy, cause to progress faster |
expiate | to make ammends =, make up for |
ferment | a state of great excitement, agitation, or terbulance |
inadvertent | reulting from or maked by lack of attention, unintetional, or accdent |
nominal | existing in name only, not real |
noncommittal | unwilling to keep to one thing, person, or idea |
peculate | to steal something you have been intrusted with at the time |
proclivity | a natural or habuital inclanation |
sangfroid | composer or coolness |
seditisous | resilent to lawful athority |
tenuous | thin, slender, not dence |
vitriolic | bitter, sarcastic |
wheedle | to use coxing or flatery to gain some desired end |