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Poulos
Lesson 12 - English I Honors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pivotal | vitally important |
| stoic | not affected by or showing passion or feeling |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| scrupulous | having or showing a strict regard for what is right or moral |
| hedonistic | devoted to a lifestyle of pleasure |
| volatile | tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly |
| peripheral | concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements |
| slander | a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report |
| animosity | a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action |
| benefactor | person who makes a bequest or endowment, as to an institution; a kind helper |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity; false or spurious |
| virtuoso | a person who has special skill or knowledge in a field; a person |
| brevity | shortness of time and duration; briefness |
| refute | to prove wrong by evidence or reasoning |
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