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Williams/Woods Feb.8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolve | to remove blame |
| blatant | bad behavior, done openly and obviously |
| cadaverious | resembling a dead body, thin pale etc. |
| exhort | strongly encourage or urge someone to do something. |
| rancanteur | story teller |
| munificent | very generous |
| prerogative | a right or privilege extended to a specific group of people. "It is a woman's prerogative to change her mind" |
| infer | Using facts to make an observation about something that isn't obvious. ex. I can infer it is raining because Mary came in with a wet umbrella. |
| penultimate | occurring immediately before the last one : next to the last |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| surfeit | : an overabundant supply |
| zeitgeist | the general beliefs, ideas, and spirit of a time and place ex. His songs perfectly captured the zeitgeist of 1960s America |