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Lesson 9 AW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acute | severe; sharp |
| amity | friendship; stat of good relationship with someone or some group |
| asperity | roughness; severity |
| belligerent | threatening; hostile |
| carp | to complain or criticize someone |
| compromised | came to an agreement from opposing views |
| cosmopolitan | urbane; sophisticated |
| depleted | used up |
| discored | a state of disagreement |
| effusive | marked by expression of excessive emotion or enthusiasm |
| esoteric | not widely understood; or little universal interest |
| exuberant | joyously unrestrained |
| galvanize | to stimulate or excite |
| histrionic | exaggerated; dramatic |
| incessant | continuous; unrelenting |
| innovate | to create or improve upon something |
| lackluster | displaying little energy, brilliance, or sheen |
| merger | the joining of several things into a single unit |
| noxious | physically harmful |
| overwrought | very agitated or excited; excessively elaborated |
| pernicious | having a harmful or destructive effect upon; poisonous |
| preclude | rule out in advance |
| proximity | quality or state of closeness |
| relegate | to diminish the importance of something |
| rotund | rounding in shape |
| slander | to damage someone's reputation with a false charge |
| stymie | to obstruct or stand in the way of |
| terse | concise; without an extraneous words; polished |
| vagary | an unpredictable or random action or event |
| volition | will; intent |