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H.E.3 Lessons 13&14
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nirvana | happiness |
| salutary | healthy |
| despicable | hateful |
| harlequin | clown |
| empathy | an understanding of another's feelings |
| brevity | briefness |
| savant | a scholar |
| obsequious | overly attentive |
| redundant | repetitive |
| offal | garbage |
| hoi polloi | common people |
| sentient | conscious |
| impinge | to respass |
| cataract | a waterfall |
| animosity | hatred |
| bombast | impressive but meaningless language |
| orthography | correct spelling |
| paleontology | study of fossils |
| recoil | to retreat |
| panache | self-confidence |
| saturnine | gloomy |
| endemic | confined to a particular country or area |
| mendacious | lying |
| obviate | to prevent |
| paroxysm | a sudden outburst |
| aggrandize | to enlarge |
| deign | to lower oneself before an inferior |
| flaunt | to show off |
| shibboleth | pronunciation specific to a country, area, or group |
| elicit | to draw forth |
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