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english vocab 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstemioius | Not self-indulgent when eating and drinking |
| Alleviate | To make easier, to endure, relieve pain |
| Amphibious | Able to live on land and in water |
| Blatant | obvious |
| Carnage | Slaughter of people |
| Chronological | An order of events |
| Decadent | declining |
| Decry | Condemn |
| Epicure | Person who has good taste in food |
| Equivocal | having two or more meanings |
| Esoteric | understood only by a select few |
| Guerrilla | A type of warfare |
| Harbinger | foreshadows what is to come |
| Inane | silly, foolish |
| Inaugurate | To start something |
| Obdurate | stubborn |
| Obsequies | A funeral, ceremony |
| Pedant | book smart |
| Punctilious | careful, cautious |
| Sententious | given to excessive moralizing |