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Basic Level 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jovial | Cheerful and friendly |
| Diligent | Careful and hard - working |
| Stipend | Regular allowance |
| Eradicate | Destroy completely |
| Empathetic | Having the ability to imagine how someone else feels |
| Misattribute | To wrongly say or think that someone or something has a particular quality or feature as a result of someone or something else |
| Paragon | The best of its kind |
| Mundane | Very ordinary and therefore not interesting |
| Negligible | Insignificant |
| Retract | To take back ( a statement) |
| Archaic | Very old |
| Robust | Sturdy |
| Audacity | Courage or confidence of a kind that other people find shocking or rude. |
| Anachronism | Belonging to another time |
| Qualify | To restrict a statement |
| Delegate | To give a particular job, duty, right,... to someone else so that they do it for you |
| Crystallize | If something crystallizes your thoughts or opinions, it makes them clear and fixed |
| Malleable | A malleable substance is easily changed into a new shape |
| Melancholy | Sadness |
| Extrapolate | To guess or think about what might happen using information that is already knowns. |
| Embellish | Add details to |
| Variance | Quality of being different |
| Banish | get rid of |
| Disheartened | Losing confidence |
| Derive | Originate in |
| Unprecedented | Never done before |
| Apex | Summit |
| Tarnish | Disgrace |
| Lucid | Easy to understand |
| Amiable | Pleasant and friendly |