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General Vocabulary 5
General vocabualry words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| flagrant | outrageous |
| admonish | to warn, to reprove |
| duress | compulsion, force |
| culprit | the guilty person |
| inexorable | inflexible |
| rampant | widespread |
| inane | foolish, silly |
| ethics | code of principles, morals |
| concur | agree |
| clandestine | secret |
| egregious | really bad |
| distraught | mentally confused, extremely upset |
| duplicity | trickery |
| acrimonious | bitter |
| paucity | scarcity, lack of an item or quality |
| elicit | to draw forth, to get information by asking questions |
| pernicious | harmful, causing injury to others |
| tolerate | to put up with |
| construe | to infer, using information to make a deduction |
| impunity | freedom from punishment |