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Vocab. Unit 3
Question | Answer |
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articulate | (verb) to pronounce distinctly and carefully: enunciate |
credence | (noun) acceptance as true or valid; belief; trustworthiness |
decry | (verb) to disparage or belittle openly; to censure |
derogatory | (adj.) detracting or disparaging |
distraught | (adj.) anxious or agitated; harried or worried |
eulogy | (noun) a public speech or written tribute extolling the virtues or achievements of a person, especially one who is deceased |
exhume | (verb) to bring to light or uncover; to disinter |
feckless | (adj.) lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective |
intractable | (adj.) difficult to manage or govern, stubborn |
nefarious | (adj.) evil, famous |
piquant | (adj.) pleasantly pungent in taste or odor; spicy |
primordial | (adj.) being or happening first in sequence or time; original |
propinquity | (n.) nearness; proximity |
unwonted | (adj.) not habitual or ordinary; unusual |
utopian | (adj.) excellent or ideal but existing only in visionary or impractical thought or theory |
verbiage | (n.) wordiness; tending to use excess words |
verdant | (adj.) green with vegetation |
viscous | (adj.) having a high resistance to flow |