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Eng Vocab wk 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asperity | Harshness of tone, temper, or manner |
| Copious | Having an abundant supply, large in quantity |
| Exacerbate | To aggravate, irritate, exasperate |
| Furtive | Stealthy |
| Innocuous | Harmless, not likely to irritate or offend |
| Interminable | Incessant, having no limits |
| Mollify | Pacify, appease, to soften in feeling or temper |
| Opulence | wealth, affluence, abundance of resources or goods |
| Polysyllabic | consisting of several (four or more) syllables |
| Quell | subdue, suppress, to put an end to, extinguish |
| Refute | to prove a person wrong, to prove false |
| Renegade | as apostate from religion, a person who deserts a party or cause |
| Stoic | A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining |
| Virulent | Violently or spitefully hostile, actively poisoness |
| Unorthodox | Not conforming to rules or modes of conduct |
| Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions |
| Colloquial | informal, involved in conversation rather than formal speech or writing. |
| Epigram | Witty ingenious pointed saying |
| Polysyndeton | using a lot of conjunctions |