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VocabWeek5
vocabweek5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| advocate | argue, defend something; lawyer |
| brazen | shamelessly bold |
| commiserated | share sorrow, pity party |
| discomfit | humiliate |
| eradicate | to destroy all traces |
| flounder | to struggle |
| gyration | to move in a circle |
| hydraulic | power that uses liquid |
| iniquity | sin, wrong doing |
| ostensible | so-called, supposed |
| poignant | emotionally moving, especially sad |
| recalcitrant | won't behave, resistant to obedience |
| recession | decline in businesses |
| reconoiter | send someone ahead, a scout |
| requite | to pay back |
| ruminant | quietly thoughtful |
| sanguine | cheerful |
| senescence | old age |
| serpentine | winding like a snake |
| serried | layered |
| shrew | really crabby woman |
| subterfuge | deception with spies, so you don't get caught |
| supplicate | call on high authority for help |
| tawny | golden yellow, brass |