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Unit 1

Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Beatific Blissful; rendering or making blessed.
Behemoth A creature of enormous size, power, or appearance.
Blandishment Anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple-polishing.
Cacophonous Harsh sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant.
Chicanery Trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing.
Consign To give over to another care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver, to set apart for a special use.
Coup A highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act, plan, or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership.
Euphemism A mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute.
Febrile Feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic.
Gainsay To deny, contradict, controvert; to dispute, oppose.
Imminent About to happen, threatening.
Innate Natural, inborn, inherit; built in.
Loath Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined.
Manifest (adj) Clear, evident, to the eyes or mind; (v) to show plainly, exhibit, evince; (n) A list of cargo and/or passenger.
Minutiae A small or trivial detail, trifling matters.
Moratorium A suspension of actively; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay.
Nostrum An alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness.
Pariah One who is rejected by a social group or organization.
Visionary (adj)Not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream; (n)One given so far-fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight.
Wizened Dry, shrunken, and wrinkled( often as the result of aging).
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