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Unit 3 List 11 VOCAB
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| stealthily | (adj.) marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secret intended to avoid notice |
| precariously | (adj.) dangerously lacking insecurity or stability |
| riveted | (v) to engross or hold attention |
| proprietors | (n) one who has legal title to something; an owner |
| envisioned | (v) pictured in the mind; imagined |
| sullenly | (v) morosely or sulkily |
| placid | (adj.) satisfied; complacent |
| boycott | (v) to act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means or coercion (talk someone into something) (think of paul revere) |
| insolently | (adj.) audaciously rude or disrespectful; arrogantly |
| jovial | (adj.) jolly (think of Santa) |