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Unit 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accomplice | a person who helps another commit a crime |
| Annihilate | destroy utterly; obliterate. |
| Arbitrary | based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system |
| Brazen | bold and without shame |
| Catalyst | a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change |
| Exodus | a mass departure of people, especially emigrants |
| Facilitate | make (an action or process) easy or easier |
| Incorrigible | not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed |
| Latent | existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden; concealed |
| Militant | combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause, and typically favoring extreme, violent, or confrontational methods |
| Morose | sullen and ill-tempered |
| Opaque | not able to be seen through; not transparent |
| Paramount | more important than anything else; supreme |
| Prattle | talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way |
| Rebut | claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false |
| Reprimand | a rebuke, especially an official one |
| Servitude | the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful |
| Slapdash | done too hurriedly and carelessly |
| Stagnaunt | showing no activity; dull and sluggish |
| Succumb | fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force) ;die from the effect of a disease or injury |