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Vocab. 11-15
| Bate | to moderate |
| unabated | continuing at full strength |
| alleviate | to make less intense or severe |
| levity | lack of appropriate seriousness |
| definitive | most reliable or complete |
| refined | free from coarseness, well-bred |
| pernicious | causing harm |
| peremptory | leaving no opportunity for refusal |
| primal | very basic and powerful |
| primordial | existing from the beginning or time, ancient |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name adopted by an author |
| eponym | a person from whom something takes its name |
| reversion | the act of returning to a former practice |
| subversive | tending or intending to destroy |
| apoplexy | a stroke |
| plexus | complex structure containing an intricate network of parts |
| protract | to draw out or lengthen |
| intractable | not easily controlled or directed |
| devolve | to transfer or delegate to another |
| convolve | to roll or wind together |
| Amend | to improve something |
| mendacious | characterized by habitual lying |
| admonish | to caution or counsel against something |
| premonitory | serving to warn beforehand |
| nil | a quantity of no importance |