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Vocab Lesson 9-10
Vocab Power Plus Book 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bilk | To cheat or swindle; to thwart |
| Homily | Sermon |
| Demise | death;ceasing to exist |
| emit | to send out;give forth, as in sound or light |
| decadence | Moral deterioration |
| aghast | feeling great dismay or honor |
| granary | storehouse for grain |
| choleric | easily angered |
| impede | to hinder, obstruct |
| qualm | feeling of uneasiness |
| lampoon | written satire used to ridicule or attack someone |
| narcissistic | conceited, haveing excessive self love |
| eradicate | to whipe out, destroy |
| fabricate | to concoct, make up a story in order to decieve |
| ghastly | horrible frightful |
| fallible | capable of error |
| blatant | obvious, too conspicuous |
| dwadle | to waste time |
| affiliate | an associate, a partner |
| fawn | to act slavishly submissive |
| calumny | a false and malicious accusation |
| berate | to scold or rebuke severely and at lengthberate |
| minion | fawning, servile follower |
| desolate | lonely, forlorn, uninhabited, barren |
| bane | the cause of ruin harm distress, or death |
| pacify | calm down |
| garble | mix up or distort |
| prevaricate | lie |
| filch | steal |
| neophyte | beginner |