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English
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Subjective | influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. dependent on the mind or an individual's perception for it's existence. |
| Superfluous | unnecessary, especially through being more than enough. |
| Incontrovertible | not able to be denied or disputed |
| Impervious | not allowing fluid to pass through unable to be affected by |
| infallibility | the inability to be wrong |
| bolstered | provided with padded support |
| doggedness | persistent determination |
| dispelled | to make a doubt, feeling or belief disappear |
| vacillation | the inability to decide between different opinions or actions; indecision |
| Impartial | treating all rivals and disputants equally, fair and just. |
| Resolute | admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering. |
| Pretension | a claim or assertion of a claim to something an inspiration or claim to a certain status or quality the use of affection to impress; ostentatiousness |
| Annulled | declare invalid an official agreement, decision or result declare a marriage to have had no legal existence |
| Spurious | not being what it purports to be; false/ fake apparent but not actually valid |
| Unmarred | having no injury, defacement, or imperfection |
| Hallowed | made holy, consecrated . greatly revered and honored |
| Counteract | act against something reducing it's force and therefore neutralizing it. |
| Invidious | action/situation likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others. unfairly discriminating; unjust |
| Dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true |
| Pessimistic | tending to see the worst aspect in things or believe that the worst will happen. |
| Clandestine | kept secret or done secretively, esp. because illicit |
| Reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily |
| Sanguine | optimistic/positive, esp. in an apparently bad or difficult situation. - blood red color/ blood red stain |
| Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made |
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