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Vocabulary III

Lesson 5&6

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Abeyance suspension; a condition of being temporarily set aside
Abstemious eating and drinking little or in moderation; restricted to bare necessities
Circumvent to avoid or get around by clever understanding
Elude difficult to capture, perceive, understand, or achieve
Eschew to avoid, especially on moral or practical grounds; abstain from
Evasion the act of escaping or avoiding by cleverness or deceit
Malinger to pretend to be ill or injured in order to avoid duty or work
Oblique indirect; intentionally vague or ambiguous, misleading
Shirk to neglect, put off, or avoid a duty or responsibility
Shun to willfully ignore; to stay away from
Converge to come together at the same point from different directions; to meet
Crux the main, central, or critical point or feature
Degradation a decline to a lower condition, quality, or level
Initiate to take the first steps in a process; to begin something
Penultimate second from the last; next to last
Pivotal being of vital importance; crucial
Sequel a continuation; something that follows; the next installment of something
Supersede to replace; to take the place of
Tangential superficially relevant; only slightly connected; merely touched
Terminate to bring to an end or halt
Created by: Hellokitty139
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