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honors english
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Auspicious | favorable, promising for the future |
| Assuage | to soothe, to make less severe, to satisfy, lesson |
| Apprehension | suspicion or fear of future trouble |
| Benign | harmless, kind |
| Condescend | to patronize, lower one self |
| Diminutive | saying little |
| Evasion | act of evading |
| Fractious | annoying |
| Furor | violence, unrestrained anger |
| Illicit | illegal |
| impertinence | rude, not showing proper respect |
| indigenous | native to an area |
| irk | to irritate, annoy |
| malevolent | having or showing a wish to do evil to others |
| mediate | intervene between people in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement |
| minute | extremely small |
| morbid | characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, esp. death and disease |
| mortify | to cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or |
| murmur | a soft, indistinct sound made by a person or group of people speaking |
| nebulous | in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy |
| Predilection | a preference or special liking for something |
| Taciturn | saying little |
| Unanimous | fully in agreement |
| Unfathomable | difficult or impossible to understand |
| Vex | to make someone feel annoyed |