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English Vocab Unit 2
Vocab Unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coax | to manipulate to desire end by adroit handling or persistant effort |
| discreet | judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with reguard to respecting privacy. |
| imputation | an attribution, as fault of crime, acusation |
| mandicancy | the practice of begging, as of alms |
| meretricious | alluring by show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry |
| prudnce | caution with reguardto practical matters discretion. |
| evanesced | tending to becoming impeerceptible; scarcely percptiblibe |
| heresy | opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or acceptance. |
| infallibility | immunity from falacy or liability to error in expounding matters of faith or morals |
| immenent | likely to occur at any moment |
| precariously | dependant on circumstances beyond one's control |
| prim | formally persice or propper, as a persons behavior |
| ardently | having or expressive of or characterization by intence feeling |
| disheveled | hanging loosely or disorder |
| eliciting | to draw or to bring out forth; enduce |
| exorbitant | exceeding the bounds of custom, prupriety |
| fragile | easily broken |
| resigned | submissive |
| stipulated | make an expressive demand or arrangement |