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Vocabulary 13
accost-redress
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| accost | v. to approach and speak to in a hostile or aggressive manner. |
| acquiesce | v. to consent silently or without protest; assent |
| duress | n. Constraint by force or threat. |
| duress | n. Imprisonment. |
| embolden | v. to make bold; encourage |
| extant | adj. Still existing; not lost, destroyed or extinct. |
| inviolable | adj. Not to be violated or profaned. |
| inviolable | adj. Indestructible. |
| mollify | v. to soothe anger or hostility. |
| mollify | v. to make less intense or violent |
| obviate | v. to anticipate and prevent. |
| provocation | n. Something that incites anger or stirs to action. |
| redress | n. Compensation or satisfaction or a wrong. |
| redress | v. to correct; remedy; to compensate |