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Vocab Unit 2
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coax | persuade gradually or by flattery to do something |
| Discreet | careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an avantage |
| Imputation | an attribution, as of fault in crime; accusation |
| Mendicancy | beggary: the state of being a beggar |
| Meretricious | apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity |
| Prudence | the quality or being prudent; cautiosness |
| Evanesced | pass out of sight, memory, or existence |
| Heresy | belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine |
| Infallibility | the inability to be wrong |
| Imminent | about to happen |
| Precariously | dependent on circumstances beyond one's control |
| Prim | stiffly formal and respectable |
| Ardently | having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate |
| Disheveled | untidy, disordered |
| Eliciting | evoke or draw out from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions |
| Exorbitant | unreasonably high |
| Fragile | easily broken or damaged |
| Resigned | having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot control |
| Stipulated | demand or specify typically as part of a bargain or agreement |
| Tormented | cause to experience severe mental or physical pain |