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Vocab 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accord | to bring into agreement |
| Aquiesce | accept, comply, or submit passively |
| Cherubic | having childlike innocence or prettiness |
| Circumscribe | to limit size or amount; draw a shape around something |
| Confederate | united in a league; allied |
| Demur | delay, hesitate |
| Disburse | to pay out or expend from a fund |
| Discordant | harsh or unpleasant in sound |
| Disinclined | unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval |
| Dismantle | to take apart he pieces of something; divest |
| Dolorous | caused, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| Feasible | capable of being done or carried out; suitable |
| Forlorn | bereft, forsaken; sad or lonely because of isolation, desolate |
| Plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe, melancholy |
| Prescribe | lay down a rule, dictate |
| Proscribe | to condem or forbid, prohibit; to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| Rebuttal | refutation or contradiction |
| Rudiments | basic principles |
| Synopsis | short description of the important parts of something |
| Wry | bent or twisted out of shape; sardonic, ironic, droll |