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Lesson 9 AW
Question | Answer |
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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 |