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unit 2
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |