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Vocabulary Lesson 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Licentious | Lacking legal or moral restraints. |
| Numismatist | A person who studies or collects coins |
| Obtrude | 1. To thrust out. 2. To force or impose (as oneself or one's ideas) without warrant or request. |
| Paucity | 1. Smallness of quantity, scarcity, scantiness. 2. Smallness or insufficiency of number or fewness. |
| Pensive | 1. Musingly or dreamily thoughtful. 2. Suggestive of sad thoughtfulness. |
| Fatalism | The belief that what will happen has already been decided and cannot be changed. |
| Epigram | 1. A concise poem dealing pointedly and often caustic with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought. 2. A terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying |
| Elated | Marked by high spirits. |
| Alienate | To make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed. |
| Lackadaisical | 1. without interest, vigor, or determination. 2. Lazy; indolent. |