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Chopin vocab
The awakening
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Insidious | slowly and subtly destructive |
| 2. Impervious | Unaffected by others opinions or arguments |
| 3. Diminutive | smaller then usual |
| 4. Effusive | excessive expression of feelings in writing or speech |
| 5. Propensity | a tendency to demonstrate particular behavior |
| 6. Desultory | aimlessly passing from one thing to another |
| 7. Capricious | tending to make sudden changes |
| 8. Immutable | not able to be changed |
| 9. Flippancy | showing a lack of seriousness that is thought inappropriate |
| 10. Supercilious | full of arrogance |
| 11. Deprecatory | expressing disaproval or critisicm |
| 12. Pretentious | having an unrealistically high self-image |
| 13. Sardonically | to ironically mock |
| 14. Droll | amusingly odd |
| 15. Incipiently | Beginning to appear |
| 16. Ennui | boredom |
| 17. Perambulated | to walk through |
| 18. Tacit | implied by actions not spoken |
| 19. Remonstrance | expression of protest |
| 20. Encumbered | to put a heavy load on |
| 21. Recapitulated | to repeat in concise form |
| 22. Subterfuges | a deceptive device |
| 23. Despondency | Depression of spirits from loss of hope |