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laville vocab 4-5-6

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Difficult to understand abstruse
Quickness and keenness of insight or judgement acumen
to discover or determine with certainty especially through examination or experimentation ascertain
A. Of or relation to the brain B. Appealing to or requiring the use of intellect; intellectual Cerebral
A. a natural power or ability B. A division of a university or a group of teachers Faculty
A. To make a difficult to understand B. To darken, to make dim or difficult to see Obfuscate
A. To think deeply about; to turn a matter over and over in one's mind B. To chew cud, or partially digested food ruminate
to prevent from making progress; to frustrate or thwart efforts stymie
a. To guess; to draw a conclusion without sufficient evidence surmise
a principle or belief held by a person tenet
Suspension; a condition of being temporarily set aside abeyance
a. Eating and drinking little or in moderation b. Restricted to bare necessities abstemious
A. to avoid or get around by clever maneuvering B. to go around circumvent
To escape from usually by daring, cleverness, or skill elude
to avoid, especially on moral or practical grounds; abstain from eschew
the act of escaping or avoiding by cleverness evasion
to pretend to be ill or injured in order to avoid duty or work malinger
indirect; intentionally vague or ambigous oblique
to neglect put off or avoid a duty or responsibility shirk
to willfully ignore; to stay away from shun
To come together at the same point from different directions; to meet converge
the main, central, or critical point or feature crux
A decline to a lower condition, quality, or level degradation
To take first steps in a process; to begin something initiate
Second from the last; next to last penultimate
being of vital importance pivotal
a continuation; something that follows; the next sequel
to replace; to take the place of supersede
a superficially relevant; only slightly connected tangential
to bring to an end or halt terminate
Created by: jgramza
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