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Stahl's Vocabulary 3
IB 11 English Stahl's Vocabulary List #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| euro | The single currency of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) introduced in January 1999 |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| expurgate | bowdlerize: edit by omitting or modifying parts |
| facetious | cleverly amusing in tone, bantering |
| fatuous | being foolish in a self-satiating manner |
| feckless | weak, ineffective |
| fiduciary | Person or company entrusted with assets owned by another party (beneficiary), and is responsible for investing the assets until they are turned over to the beneficiary |
| filibuster | A device, used only in the Senate, to delay or prevent a vote by time-consuming talk |
| gauche | lacking social polish, tactless |
| gerrymander | To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections |