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S2 Week 3 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acerbity | sourness; acidity of taste or personality |
| Bucolic | pastoral, rustic |
| Buffet | To strike, hit, batter, beat, thrash |
| calumny | slander, defamation |
| craven | cowardly, pusillanimous |
| detritus | debris |
| didactic | instructive, pedantic |
| incipient | beginning, initial, inciting incident |
| pithy | terse, concise, to the point |
| prevaricate | to lie; to be vague to avoid answering directly or incriminate yourself |
| puerile | childish, juvenile, foolish |
| rarefied | exalted, elevated, esoteric |
| sangfroid | composure, unbothered |
| succor | aid, assistance, relief |
| trenchant | Focused, keen, effective |