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vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abssolve | to clear quilt or to free from a promise or responsibility |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow in an indirect way, to outline in a sketchy way |
| aspersion | a deamatory expression, slander |
| apothegm | short instructive saying |
| coadjutor | one who works with another usually in a subordinate postition, an assistant |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth;being an essential characteristic |
| elan | a lively spirit with a distinictive style |
| germane | pertinent and fitting |
| hiatus | an interruption or gap in space, continuity or time |
| immure | to confine within or as if within walls, to imprision |
| ineluctable | not avoided or changed, inevitable |
| invoke | to appeal earneslty, a site in justification |
| prototype | a person or thing that serves as an example of its kind; an original |
| internecine | marked by slaughter, mutally destructive, conflict within a group |
| quadrennial | occuring every four years, lasting four years |