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ENG Week 33 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes toward an object, person, or action |
| Broach | to open up a subject for discussion |
| Brook | to stand for; tolerate |
| Cudgel | a short heavy club |
| Culpability | the condition of meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| Dross | something that is base, trivial, or inferior |
| Ductile | easily led or influenced |
| Flaunt | to display ostentatiously or impudently |
| Fledge | to rear until ready for independent activity |
| Impute | to credit to a person or cause |
| Incandescent | strikingly bright, radiant, or clear |
| Latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| Lavish | expending or bestowing profusely |
| Manipulative | changing by artful or unfair means so as to serve one’s purpose |
| Neocracy | government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule |
| Placebo | something tending to soothe |
| Placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| Plethora | excess, superfluity |
| Renege | deny, renounce; to go back on a promise or commitment |
| Renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored |
| Bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| Crockery | earthenware |
| Cryptic | having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning |
| Culture | the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group |
| Dwindle | to become or make steadily less |