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Vocab Set One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tableau | any dramatic scene; a group of people attractively arranged |
| Verities | an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth; conformity to reality or actuality |
| Panegyric | expressing praise; noun a formal expression of praise |
| Facile | Performing without effort; lacking depth; expressing yourself redily, clearly, and effectively |
| Languished | become feeble; loose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; have a desire for something or someone who is not present |
| Hedonistic | devoted to pleasure |
| Fidelity | the quality of being faithful |
| Turbid | clouded as with sediment |
| Vivisecting | cut (a body) open while still alive |
| Disdain | a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike |