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Vocab Quiz 1.11.09
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| brusque | abrupt, blunt, with no formalities |
| demagogue | a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| cajole | to coax, persuade through flattery or artiface; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises |
| ennu | boredom |
| anomalous | abnormal |
| contrive | invent |
| disabuse | to free from deception or error |
| arbiter | one having power to decide a matter at issue |
| bizzarre | extremely strange |
| castrigate | to punish severely |
| aspersion | a damaging or derogatory statement |
| vouchsafe | to give or furnish condescendingly |
| megalomania | a delusion marked by a feeling of power |
| surreptitous | stealthy, secret |
| transmute | to transform |
| immutable | not subject to change, constant |
| transgress | to sin |
| beinous | offensive, hateful |
| insurgent | one who rebels or rises against authority |
| fetter | a chain or shackle placed on the feet |
| sincure | an easy job |
| vicarious | performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another |