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Vocab Cycle 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Amenable | disposed or willing to comply |
| Acumen | shrewdness shown by keen insight |
| Botch | make a mess of, destroy, or ruin |
| Brinkmanship | act of pushing a dangerous situation to the edge of disaster |
| Conductive | tending to bring about; being partly responsible for |
| Concurrent | occurring or operating at the same time |
| Crony | a close friend or associate |
| Confute | prove to be false |
| Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
| Erroneous | containing or characterized by mistakes |
| Forte | an asset of special worth or utility |
| Fortitude | strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity |
| Influx | the process of flowing in |
| Impasse | a situation in which no progress can be made |
| Insular | relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island |
| Irrevocable | incapable of being retracted |
| Ineffable | defying expression or description |
| Junta | a group of officers who rule a country after seizing power |
| Kleptomania | an impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive |
| Molify | cause to be more favorably inclined |
| Malodorous | having an unpleasant smell |
| Meritorious | deserving reward or praise |
| Mezzanine | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
| Nanotechnology | engineering that involves manipulating atoms and molecules |
| Negligible | so small as to be meaningless; insignificant |
| Notarize | authenticate by someone empowered to witness signatures |
| Patina | a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal |
| Perjury | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
| Pinnacle | a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower |
| Placebo | an innocuous or inert medication |
| Plaintive | expressing sorrow |
| Perennial | lasting an indefinitely long time |
| Purport | have the often-misleading appearance of being or intending |
| Precept | a rule of personal conduct |
| Pungent | strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell |
| Rigorous | strict; allowing no deviation from a standard |
| recumbent | lying down; in a position of comfort or rest |
| Renown | the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed |
| Renege | fail to fulfill a promise or obligation |
| Sedentary | requiring sitting or little activity |
| Stricture | severe criticism |
| Subversive | in opposition to an established system or government |
| Tantamount | being essentially equal to something |
| Tribulation | an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event |
| Visage | the human face |
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