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Vocabtest unit 3
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adversary | an opponent an enemy |
| Alienate | to cause to turn away |
| Artifice | trickery |
| Coerce | to force |
| Craven | a coward characterized by shamless fear, cowardly |
| Culinary | of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen |
| Delete | to remove by striking out or canceling |
| Demise | a death |
| Exhilarate | to fill with high or cheerful spirits |
| Fallow | land that has been plowed but not yet seeded, to plow land but not seed it plowed and left unseeded, regarding and, uncultivated |
| Harass | to trouble with importunes. |
| Inclement | stormy showing no mercy |
| muse | to be absorbed in ones thoughts ponder ruminate |
| Negligible | not significant or important enough to be worth considering trifling |
| Perpetuate | to preserve from extinction or oblivion |
| Precedent | an instance that may serve as guide or basis for a rule |
| Punitive | Pertaining to punishment |
| Redress | to set right |
| Sojourn | a temporary stay a brief period or residence to stay for a time in place to live temporarily |
| Urbane | polite refined and often elegant in manner |