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Vocab list 10
Vocab List 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antipathy(n.) | Anger towards a particular thing. |
| Apocryphal(adj.) | Of doubtful authorship or authenticity. |
| Ardent(adj.) | Having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent. |
| Arduous(adj.) | Requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult. |
| Ascribe(v.) | To credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute. |
| Aspersion(n.) | A damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander. FALSE |
| Conjure(v.) | To summon to call as supernatural means. |
| Construe(v.) | To give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret. |
| Consummate(v.) | To bring to a state of conclusion. |
| Contravene(v.) | To come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose. |
| Disseminate(v.) | To scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively. |
| Diurnal(adj.) | Of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily. |
| Dogmatic(adj.) | Strong expression of beliefs. |
| Droll(adj.) | Amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish. |
| Estrange(v.) | To turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of. |
| Evanescent(adj.) | Vanishing; fading away; fleeting. |
| Exacerbate(v.) | To increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. to worsen |
| Exculpate(v.) | To clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate. |
| Exhort(v.) | To urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently. |
| Exonerate(v.) | To clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate. |