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H.E.3 Lessons 13&14
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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nirvana | happiness |
salutary | healthy |
despicable | hateful |
harlequin | clown |
empathy | an understanding of another's feelings |
brevity | briefness |
savant | a scholar |
obsequious | overly attentive |
redundant | repetitive |
offal | garbage |
hoi polloi | common people |
sentient | conscious |
impinge | to respass |
cataract | a waterfall |
animosity | hatred |
bombast | impressive but meaningless language |
orthography | correct spelling |
paleontology | study of fossils |
recoil | to retreat |
panache | self-confidence |
saturnine | gloomy |
endemic | confined to a particular country or area |
mendacious | lying |
obviate | to prevent |
paroxysm | a sudden outburst |
aggrandize | to enlarge |
deign | to lower oneself before an inferior |
flaunt | to show off |
shibboleth | pronunciation specific to a country, area, or group |
elicit | to draw forth |