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Unit 9
Vocab Def.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to make less | abate |
| to subside | abate |
| praise or flattery that is excessive | adulation |
| an object of intense dislike | anathema |
| strong denunciation | anathema |
| showing practical wisdom | astute |
| a greedy desire | avarice |
| deserving blame | cuipable |
| tending to delay or procrastinate | dilatory |
| not prompt | dilatory |
| conspicuous | egregious |
| standing out from the mass | egregious |
| to be deliberately vague or ambiguous | equivocate |
| vanishing | evanescent |
| light and airy | evanescent |
| unable to make up one's mind | irresolute |
| hesitating | irresolute |
| cloudlike | nebulous |
| indistinct | nebulous |
| one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience | novice |
| extreme poverty | penury |
| done for show | pretentious |
| claiming merit or position unjustifiably | pretentious |
| to sum up | recapitulate |
| to revive | resuscitate |
| to bring back | resuscitate |
| dirty, careless | slovenly |
| something that is assumed | supposition |
| sluggish, dull | torpid |