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vocabworkshopF
unit3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abomination | to have intense dislike or hatred for |
| acculturation | adaption modification of social patterns traits or structures |
| adventitious | chance accidental not essential |
| ascribe | to assign or refer to as a cause or source attribute |
| circuitous | roundabout not direct |
| commiserate | to sympathize with have pity or sorrow for share feelings of distress |
| enjoin | to direct or order to prescribe a course of action in authoritative way to prohibit |
| expedite | to make easier cause to progress faster |
| expiate | to make amends make up for to avert |
| ferment | a state of great excitement agitation or turbulence to produce alcohol by chemical action |
| inadvertent | resulting from lack of attention accidental |
| nominal | existing in name only not real too small to be taken seriously |
| noncommittal | not decisive or defiant cant say yes or no |
| peculate | to steal something that has been given into ones trust to take improperly for ones own use |
| proclivity | a natural or habitual inclination or tendency syn.natural bend to |
| sangfroid | composure or coolness self assurance |
| seditious | resistant to lawful authority mutinous rebellious |
| tenuous | thin slender not dense flimsy poorly supported vague hazy |
| vitriolic | bitter sarcastic highly biting (like strong acid) |
| wheedle | to use coaxing or flattery to gain something |