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Sidd Vocabs
ascetic to venerable
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascetic | leading life of self-disipline and self-denial. esp. for spiritual improvement |
| avarice | immoderate desire for wealth |
| emante | to come or send forth |
| ennui | boredom |
| erudite | deep wide learning |
| expiate | to make amends or reparation fo |
| exhort | to urge by strong, ofthen stirring argument |
| equanimity | the quality of being calm and even-tempered |
| indolent | Disinclined to exert oneself; lazy |
| inertia | the tendency of a body at rest to remain in rest of of a body to stay in motion. |
| insatiable | impossible to satiate or satisfy. |
| palliate | to make (an offence or crime) seem less serious; extenuate. |
| presentiment | A sense that something is about to occur |
| prudent | exercising good judgement of common sense |
| subservient | subordinate in capacity or function |
| supplicate | to ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying |
| supple | readily bent; pliant |
| tenacity | Tough, stubborn persistant |
| transitory | temporary; short-lived |
| venerable | commanding respect by virture of age, dignity, character, or postion |