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Vocab
chapters 26-30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Convivial | Sociable |
| Equanimity | Calmness |
| Lassitude | Tiredness |
| Listless | Without Energy (adjective) |
| Mollify | To calm down |
| Paradigm | A form to follow |
| Profusion | A great Quantity |
| Recalcitrant | Disobedient |
| Resigned | Consenting to without protest |
| Surmise | To suppose |
| Abstract | Vague |
| Archaic | old-fashioned |
| Engender | To begin |
| Erudite | learned (adjective) |
| Fervor | Passion |
| Iconoclast | a Rebel |
| Laudable | admirable |
| Painstaking | Careful |
| Pompous | Self-Important |
| Renown | Reputation |
| Abstemious | Moderate in eating and drinking |
| Abstruse | hard to comprehend |
| Astute | shrewdly observant |
| Aversion | a strong distaste for |
| diminutive | little |
| eclectic | varied |
| extraneous | unrelated |
| hardy | healthy and sturdy |
| intractable | uncontrollable |
| soporific | causing drowsiness |
| arduous | demanding or great effort |
| ascetic | self-denying |
| Blithe | joyful |
| Deprecate | to look down on |
| didactic | educational |
| eulogy | statement of praise |
| gratuitous | unnecessary |
| raze | to wreck |
| tawdry | sleazy, not elegant |
| unimpeachable | without fault |
| ambivalence | conflicting attitudes |
| anomaly | an abnormality |
| biased | having a preconceived opinion |
| credulous | too trustful |
| despot | an oppressive leader |
| incipient | coming to existence |
| nefarious | evil |
| prodigious | huge |
| servile | to act like a slave |
| temper | to tone down |
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