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Vocabulary
Unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coax | to urge by persuation |
| Discreet | cautious in conduct or speech |
| Imputation | the act of laying responsibility or blame unjustly |
| Mendicany | conduct of being a begger |
| Meretricious | attractive in a cheap, flashy way; tawdry |
| Prudence | careful forethought |
| Evanesced | To disappear gradually; vanish, fade |
| Heresy | brief opposite of normal |
| Infallibility | condition of being incapable of error |
| Imminent | likely to occur at any moment |
| Precariously | uncertain, unstable, unsecure |
| Prim | formally |
| Ardently | characterized by intense feeling warm, or intense feeling |
| Disheveled | hanging loosely or in disorder |
| Eliciting | to draw or bring out or forth |
| Exorbitant | exceeding |
| Fragile | easily broken, shattered |
| Resigned | submissive |
| Stipulated | to make an express demand or arrangement |
| Tormented | to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain |