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Unit 9: Lit + Comp
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | an appreciation of beauty |
| Assimilate | become similar to one's environment |
| Coalesce | mix together; fuse |
| Conundrum | a difficult problem |
| Differential | relating or showing a difference |
| Empathy | understanding and entering another person's feelings |
| Extol | to praise, glorify, or honor |
| Hackneyed | overuse; repeated to often |
| Incongruous | lacking in harmony or compatibility |
| Jubilation | a feeling of extreme joy |
| mawkish | insincerely emotional |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrong doing |
| paragon | one having no equal; the perfect embodiment of a concept |
| pragmatic | guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory |
| prurient | characterized by lust |
| rejuvenate | make younger or more youthful; given new energy |
| servile | submissive |
| surreptitious | marked by quite, caution, or secrecy |
| umbrage | a feeling of anger caused by being offended |
| vital | Absolutely necessary |