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Vocab 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accolade | Any award, honor, or laudatory notice. |
| Accommodate | To do a kindness or a favor to; oblige. |
| Bequeath | To dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will. |
| Capricious | Subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic. |
| Deference | Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another. |
| Egregious | Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant. |
| Fallacious | Deceptive; misleading. |
| Genre | A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like. |
| Havoc | Great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage. |
| Immutable | Not mutable; unchangeable; changeless. |
| Impassive | Without emotion; apathetic; unmoved. |
| Languish | To be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade. |
| Mandate | A command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative. |
| Nepotism | Patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics. |
| Obsequious | Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning. |
| Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| Rationalize | To ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes. |
| Sage | A profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom. |
| Tantamount | Equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification. |
| Vehemently | Zealous; ardent; impassioned. |