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october vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abject | uttterly hopeless, humiliating |
| acclimate | to accustum or become accustom to a new enviornment |
| affable | pleasently easy to approach and to talk to |
| alienate | to make indifferant or hostile |
| ambivalent | uncertainty or fluctuation caused by inability to make a choice. |
| anarchy | a state of society without government or law. |
| articulate | uttered clearly in distinct syllables. |
| atrophy | a wasting away of the body or an organ or part of the body. |
| austere | severe in mannor or apperance; uncompromising; strict; forbiding |
| banal | devoid of freshness or origionality; hackneyed; trite. |
| blithe | joyous, merry, or gay in disposition, glad, cheerful. |
| brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough. |
| buttress | an external prop or suport built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts. |
| censure | strong or vehment expresion of dissaproval. |
| coerce | to compel by force, intimidation or authority |
| condone | to disregard or overlook (illegal) |
| copious | large in quantity or number; abundent; plentiful. |
| corpulent | large or bulky of body; large; stout; fat. |
| defer | to put off to a future time. |
| deviate | to turn aside; route; way ; course. |
| disparage | to speak of or treat slightingly |
| duplicity | decitfullness in speach or conduct; speaking or acting in two differant ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive; double-dealing. |
| enclave | a country mostly or entirly surronded by another country. |
| equanimity | mental or emotionaly stability or composure esp. under tension or straign; calmness. |
| esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have speacial knowlage or interest; recondite. |