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unit 2
vocab
Term | Definition |
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ameliorate | to improve, make better, correct a flew or shortcoming |
aplomb | poise, assurance, great self-confedence |
bombastic | pompous or overblown in lauguage |
callow | without experience |
drivel | slava or music flowing from ones mouth or nose |
epitome | a summery, condenced amount |
exhort | to urge strongly, advise ernestly |
ex offico | by virtue of holding a cirten offfic |
infringe | to violet, tresspass, go behond reconized bounds |
ingratiate | to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others |
interloper | one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, intuder |
intrinsic | belonging to someone or something by it's very nature, essental, inherent |
inveigh | to make a violent attack in words, express strong disaproval |
lassitude | weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
millennium | a period of one thouend years |
occult | secret, hidden from veiw |
permeate | to spread though, soak through |
precipitate | to fall as moisture |
stringent | strict, suvere |
surmise | to think or belive without certin suporting evence |