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Lesson 3 Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstruse | Difficult to understand. |
| Affable | Freindly |
| Audacity | Excessive boldness,rashness,daring. |
| Contrite | Extremely apologetic |
| Credulous | Believing on slight evidence. |
| Depravity | Moral corruption,a wicked or preverse act. |
| Deprecate | To disapprove regretfully. |
| Didactic | Instructive,desighned to teach. |
| Dormant | Inactive,sleeping |
| Enigmatic | mysterious,puzzling |
| Erudite | Scholarly |
| Exotic | Foreign,unfamiliar |
| Fuse | To mix or to join (usually by melting.) |
| Immutable | Unchanging |
| Incorrigible | Incapable of being reformed or improved. |
| Loathe | To detest |
| Mitigate | To cause to become less harsh or hostile;to make less severe. |
| Nullify | To cause not to be in effect. |
| Pacifistic | Opposed to war or use of force. |
| Pretentious | Making an extavagant outward show. |
| Prologue | Introducing remarks in a speech. |
| Recant | To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief. |
| Servile | Overly submissive |
| Trepidation | Fear,trembling |
| Vilify | To malign,to defame,to utter abusive statements against. |