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Vocabulary unit 4

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Abnegation   renouncing, giving up his rights  
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Abstruse   difficult, deep, recondite  
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Acrid   biting, sharp, caustic  
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Affront   insulted, offended, was offensive when face to face with  
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Anachronism   an outmoded thing, an anomaly  
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August   impressive, awe, inspiring, dignified  
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Cacophony   noise, discord, disharmony  
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Chagrin   embarrassment, mortification  
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Clandestine   secret, furtive, surreptitious  
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Contumely   scorn, contempt, insolence  
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Deprecate   oppose, plead earnestly against  
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Desultory   occasional, random, haphazard  
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Eclectric   gathered from many sources  
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Egregious   bad, obvious, flagrant  
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Enamored   fond, loving  
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Eschew   stay away from, shun, abstain from  
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Facile   easily influenced, complaisant  
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Fickle   changing, unstable, inconstant  
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Generic   common, widespread, general  
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Harbinger   sign, forteller, presager  
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Hypochondriac   worried about his health, taken with imaginary illness  
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Impute   charge, attribute, ascribe  
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Ineptitude   clumsiness, unfitness, inefficient  
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Intrepid   brave, fearless, dauntless  
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Juxtapose   set together, put in proximity  
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Labyrinth   confusing pattern, entanglement, maze  
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Machiavellian   sly, wily, astute  
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Mellifluence   sweetly flowing, smooth  
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Nomad   wanderer, gypsy, itinerant  
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Ostentatious   showing off pretentious  
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Paradox   inconsistency, apparent contradiction  
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Pathos   pitifulness, sympathy-evoking nature  
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Pensive   meditative, absorbed  
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Philistine   so uncultured, unrefined, ignorant  
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Poignant   sharp, painful, keen  
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Prate   chatter, babble  
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Propinquity   nearness, closeness, proximity  
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Redress   repayment, remedy, reparation  
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Reticent   reluctant to speak, refine  
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Satiated   fed up, wearied, surfeited  
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