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Vocab 2
"The Gift of the Magi"
Term | Definition |
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Coax | To urge by persuasion |
Discreet | Careful in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage |
Imputation | The act of laying responsibility unjustly. |
Mendicancy | The condition of being a beggar. |
Meretricious | Attractive in a cheap flashy way. |
Prudence | Cautious, careful forthought |
Evanesced | Disappear gradually |
Heresy | A Belief opposite of normal belief's. |
Infallibility | Condition of being incapable of error |
Imminent | Likely, about to happen |
Precariously | Uncertain |
Prim | Formal |
Ardently | passionately, Warmth of feeling |
Disheveled | Hanging loosly, untidy |
Eliciting | To draw out |
Exorbiant | Excessive, Unreasonable |
Fragile | Easily damaged |
Resigned | Submissive |
Stipulated | Require as a condition of an agreement. |
Tormented | Severe mental or physical suffering |