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LA Vocab 5-6
defintions
| Term | Definitions | Definitions | Definitions |
|---|---|---|---|
| commiserate | to feel or express sorrow or pitty | ||
| condone | to forgive; to disregard an offense | ||
| commodious | spacious, roomy, as in a house | ||
| contrite | thoroughly remorseful and repentant of one's sins | ||
| abstain | to refrain from something by one's choice | ||
| impertinent | impudent, rude | irrelevant | |
| pertinacious | holding firmly, even stubbornly, to a belief | ||
| tenacity | hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly | ||
| aptitude | a natural talent or ability; quickness in learning | ||
| inept | without skill | inappropriate or out of place; foolish or absurd | |
| adjunct | an added part not essential to the whole | ||
| conjugate | to give forms of verbs in a fixed order | ||
| injunction | an authoritative command or order | ||
| juncture | a serious state of affairs | the condition or point of being joined | |
| subjugate | to conquer; to dominate completely | ||
| astringent | harsh; severe | ||
| strait | a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water | a difficulty or bad postion | |
| stringent | severe; constricted; tight | pertaining to scarcity of money | |
| coherent | showing an orderly relation of parts | sticking together | being able to communicate clearly and logically |
| colloquial | characteristic of ordinary conversation rather that formal speech or writing |