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FAE Final vocab--
FAE final vocab '09
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to give in |
| acrimonious | caustic; sharp and bitter wit |
| assuage | to mitigate/ ease pain |
| auspicious | favorable |
| benevolence | kindness |
| complacency | self-satisfied |
| enunciate | pronounce clearly |
| formidable | menacing- fear or awe |
| furtive | secret-under handing |
| innate | inborn |
| lament | mourn |
| malevolence | evil intentions |
| oblivion | state of being forgotten |
| ominous | threatening |
| piety | devotion to g-d |
| predilection | preference |
| profane | contempt toward sacred things |
| succinct | brief, compact |
| temerity | bold and foolhardy |
| unmitigated | not made less severe or intense |
| callous | showing or feeling no sympathy for others / no heart |
| commemorate | recall and show respect for |
| vex | to feel frustrated or annoyed |
| detestation | intense dislike |
| vindictive | showing or having strong or unreasoning desire of revenge |
| exotic | attractive, striking, foreign belonging to another country |
| heresy | belief or opinion / supporting on the contrary of the church, dominant theory, opinion, or practice |
| imminent | ready to take place |
| infallibility | incapable of error; no liable to mislead |
| invalid | sickly; ailing |
| contrition | sorrow and remorse for a sin |
| degradation | a state of corruption and loss of dignity |
| poignantly | sharply, keenly, or painful affecting feelings |
| stoic | stern control or holding in of emotion |
| nostalgia | a longing for something far away or long ago |