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10th grade vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |