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Vocab 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to make less in amount | Abate |
| praise or flattery that is excessive | Adulation |
| intense dislike | Anathema |
| Showing practical wisdom | Astute |
| A greedy desire | Avarice |
| Deserving blame, worthy of condemnation | Culpable |
| Tending to delay or procrastinate | Dilatory |
| Standing out from the mass; glaring | Egregious |
| To speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to talk on both sides of one's mouth | Equivocate |
| Vanishing | Evanescent |
| Unable to make up one's mind | Irresolute |
| Cloudlike; resembling a cloud | Nebulous |
| One who is just a beginner at some activity | Novice |
| Extreme poverty | Penury |
| Striving to make a big impression; done for show | Pretentious |
| To review a series of facts | Recapitulate |
| To revive | Resuscitate |
| Untidy, dirty | Slovenly |
| Taken for granted; assumption | Supposition |
| Inactive, sluggish, dull | Torpid |