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Lesson 3 Vocab
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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abstruse | difficult to understand, complex, concealed |
affable | friendly, amiable, genial, sociable |
audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
contrite | extremely apologetic, repentant, remorseful |
credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
deprecate | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
didactic | instructive, designed to teach |
dormant | inactive, sleeping, latent |
enigmatic | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
erudite | scholarly |
exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
fuse | to mix or join, blend |
immutable | unchanging |
incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
loathe | to detest, abominate |
mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate |
pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force |
pretentious | making an extravagant outward show, self-important, pompous, ostentatious |
prologue | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
recant | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke, renounce |
servile | overly submissive |
trepidation | fear, trembling, agitation |
vilify | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statments against |