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Test 3 LA Vocab

TermDefinition
Rampant Going unchecked, widespread
Inane Foolish
Ethics Code of principals
Concur Agree
Clandestine Secret, undercover
Idiom: Stock in trade The goods, tools, and other requisites of a profession.
Flagrant Outrageous, glaringly bad
Admonish To warn, reprove
Duress Compulsion, force
Culprit The guilty person
Inexorable Inflexible, unrelenting.
Idiom: To take down a peg To take the conceit out of a braggart
Egregious Remarkably bad
Distraught Mentally confused, crazed
Duplicity Cunning, trickery
Acrimonious Bitter
Paucity Scarcity
Idiom: To pass the buck To evade responcibility
Elicit To make a deduction, to infer
Pernicious Harmful, causing injury
Tolerate To put up with, to bear
Construe To draw forth
Impunity Freedom from punishment
Idiom: To lionize a person To make a fuss over someone.
Affluent rich
Feasible possible
discern perceive* (To understand)
Sally to suddenly rush forth
Consternation dismay
Idiom: I'm From Missouri a skeptic, one who is not easily convinced
Precocious reaching maturity early
Perfunctory done without care
Chagrin feeling of disappointment, humiliation
Perverse contrary, persisting in error
Deride to ridicule, scoff* at
Idiom: Red Letter Day day of happiness, time for rejoice
Disparage to discredit, belittle*
Laudable praiseworthy
Fiasco complete failure
Masticate to chew up
Eschew avoid
Idiom: To Let Sleeping Dogs Lie to let well enough alone
Quell put an end to
voluble talkative
confident[e] one to whom you can confide your secrets
obsolescence process of wearing out
dubious doubtful
Thumb's down signal of rejection
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