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vocab unit 2
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coax | (verb) to work on or tend to something carefully and patiently so as to make it function as one desires. |
| Discreet | (adj.) Careful in one's speech or actions |
| Mendicancy | (noun) the practice of begging |
| Meretricious | (adj) apparently attractive but having in reality, no value or integrity |
| Prudence | (noun)the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. |
| Evanesced | (verb) Passed out of sight, memory or existence |
| Heresy | (noun) A dangerous idea or thought that threates popular beliefs. |
| Infallibility | (noun the inabilityy to be wrong |
| Imminent | (adj) about to happen.. |
| Precariously | (adj dangerously lacking in securit or stability. |
| Prim | (adj) stiffly formal and respectable. |
| Ardently | (adv) passionately or zealousy |
| Disheveled | (adj) Untidy or disordered |
| Eliciting | (verb)evoking or drawing out. |
| Exorbitant | (adj) unreasonably high |
| Fragile | (adj) easily broken or damaged. |
| Resigned | (adj having accepted something unpleastant that one cannot do anything about |
| Stipulated | ( verb) demanded or specified. |
| Tormented | (verb) caused severe mental or physical suffering |