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lesson five vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Basrelief | scuplture whose ornament or figures are somewhat raised above the background. |
| Debase | To lower in quality,value, or dignity; to degrade. |
| Declivity | A downward slope. |
| Proclivity | A natural inclintation or tendency. |
| Leaven | A substance like yeast or a small amount of fermented dough that causes dough to expand or rise. |
| Legerdemain | Sleight of hand;magic tricks. |
| Leverage | The action of a lever that raises or lifts. |
| Levitate | To raise or float, or cause to rise,seemingly despite gravity. |
| Levity | Lightness in speech or behavior,exspecially unbecoming jocularity; frivolity. |
| Penchant | A strong inclintation or liking. |
| Ponderous | extremly heavy;massive. |
| Imponderable | unable to be assessed or measured pecisely. |
| Preponderant | superior in number,force,power,or importance. |
| Echelon | a step-like formation of troops,ships,or aircraft. |
| Transcendent | Goin beyond the limits of ordinary experience. |