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unit 3
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abominate | to have an intence dislike or hatred |
| acculturation | the modtification of social patters, traits or structures of one group or socity by contact with those of another |
| adventitious | resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character |
| ascribe | to assign or refer to |
| circuitous | roundabout, not direct |
| commiserate | to sympathize with, have pity or sowrow for, share a feeling of distress |
| enjoin | to derect or order |
| expedite | to make easy, cause to progress faster |
| expiate | to make ammends =, make up for |
| ferment | a state of great excitement, agitation, or terbulance |
| inadvertent | reulting from or maked by lack of attention, unintetional, or accdent |
| nominal | existing in name only, not real |
| noncommittal | unwilling to keep to one thing, person, or idea |
| peculate | to steal something you have been intrusted with at the time |
| proclivity | a natural or habuital inclanation |
| sangfroid | composer or coolness |
| seditisous | resilent to lawful athority |
| tenuous | thin, slender, not dence |
| vitriolic | bitter, sarcastic |
| wheedle | to use coxing or flatery to gain some desired end |