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10th grade vocab
Question | Answer |
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beseech | ask or plead for |
servile | submissive, like a survant |
hinder | obstruct or prevent |
countenance | appearance of face or facial expression |
impart | make known or disclose |
feeble | weak |
seldom | rarely or infrequently |
perilous | dangerous |
bestow | give to or place upon |
afability | being kind, gentle, or friendly |
resolution | firm decision to follow a path/plan |
shrewd | cunning calculated |
apparent | easily seen/understood |
valiant | a brave person |
amiss | in an improper or mistaken way |
laments | grieves or mourns |
redress | remedy or correct a wrong |
confounded | confused or puzzled |
appeased | quieted or pacified |
consent | to agree to |
vile | disgusting or repulsive |
ingratitude | ungratefulness, lack of appreciation |
covert | secret or hidden |
sober | serious or grave |
contaminate | add impurities, make unclean |
endure | tolerate or put up with |
presume | take for granted |
gallant | noble, majestic, brave |
misconstrued | interpreted, or understood, wrongly or incorrectly |
proclaim | announce in public |
falter | to waver |
enmity | nostility, enemy |
preeminent | most excellent |
vivacious | lively |
expounded | explained |
cryptic | mysterious |
obstinate | stubborn |
indefatigable | untiring (not going to get tried) |
contemptible | disgraceful |
irrepressible | unmanagable, can't be held back |
ignominious | humiliation |
pretext | alleged reason |
reconciled | brought (onesself) to accept |
procure | obtain |
capitulated | gave up |
dejectedly | dismally; unhappily |
complicity | involvment in a wrongful act |
contemptuously | disrespectful; disdainfully |
taciturn | reluctant to talk |
intimated | hinted or implied |