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vocab 151-171
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| salacious | greedy |
| specious | something thought to be good but has no evidence to back it up |
| garish | something elaborate |
| efficacy | something that has a great affect on another thing |
| tantamount | equivalent |
| extraneous | not belonging or proper to a thing |
| pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin |
| intractable | not easily controlled or directed |
| sacrosanct | extremely sacred or inviolable |
| compliant | obeying, or letting your guard down |
| penchant | a strong liking for something |
| xenophobia | an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers |
| abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking |
| objurgate | to reproach or denounce vehemently |
| erudition | knowledge acquired by study |
| castigate | to criticize severely |
| adroit | expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body can also be clever |