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Advanced English 13
vocab lesson 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ambiguous | indefinite |
| atonement | amends for wrong-doing |
| bicameral | composed of two houses |
| Decalogue | the Ten Commandments |
| decimate | to destroy a great number of proportion of |
| dichotomy | division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions |
| double-think | the belief in two contradictory ideas at the same time |
| millennium | a span of a thousand years |
| nihilism | total rejection of established laws and institutions |
| penultimate | next to last |
| primeval | original; oldest |
| protocol | forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of states |
| quatrain | a stanza or poem of four lines |
| quintessence | the most perfect embodiment of something |
| untrammeled | unhampered; unrestrained |