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unit 7-8
vocabulary for achievements course four
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| intend to teach overly moralistic; preachy | didactic |
| to instruct for intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement | edify |
| elucidate | to explain or make clear |
| erudite | possessing great knowledge and scholarship |
| esoteric | understood only by an elite, scholarly, or exclusive group; obscure |
| A) to inspire or influence thoroughly B) to stain or dye thoroughly | imbue |
| to instruct in or impact certain principles or ideology | indoctrinate |
| A) the art of profession of teaching B) the body of knowledge related to education and teaching | pedagogy |
| overly concerned with or focused | pedantic |
| A) a person of great learning about a particular topic; an expert B) a source of opinion; a crtic | pundit |
| protection; sponsorship; guidance | aegis |
| something done to make up for wrong, an injury, or mistake; cimpensation | amends |
| peacemaking; appeasing; intended to overcome distrust, animosity, or conflict | concilliatory |
| tending to cause or bring about; favorable to | conducive |
| to free from difficulty or entanglement | extricate |
| to annoy with repeated and insistent requests; to ask for urgently or repeatedly | importune |
| to help opposing sides reach an agreement; to intervene in a conflict in order to improve the situation | mediate |
| to make less severe; to soften, lessen or moderate | mitigate |
| A) to support or sponsor B) To go as a customer; to shop at regularly C) to treat as inferior | patronize |
| to store something to an earlier condition, by repairing or remodeling | renovate |