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Vocabulary week 18
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Impassible | Incapable of suffering or experiencing pain; incapable of feeling |
| Kleptomania | A persistent neurotic impulse to steal especially without economic motive |
| Mordacious | given to biting; caustic; sarcastic |
| Peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail |
| Pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| Petrify | to make rigid or inert like stone; to confound with fear, amazement, or awe |
| Recapitulate | to repeat the principal stages or phrases of |
| Recluse | marked by withdrawal with society |
| Slake | subside, abate; satisfy, quench |
| Zeitgeist | the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era |