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Study Skills Midterm
Vocabulary
| Term | Definitions |
|---|---|
| decipher | To find out the true words or meaning of |
| despondent | Disheartened, depressed |
| egregious | Extreme (especially in terms of mistakes, errors) |
| emaciate | To waste away in flesh |
| emulate | To imitate, especially someone one looks upto |
| exigent | Demanding, urgent |
| flagrant | Openly scandalous |
| fallacy | Any unsound mode of reasoning--or anything based on such reasoning |
| formidible | Difficult to accomplish |
| Dissent | Disagreement |
| abject | Sunk to a low condition |
| alleviate | to make less burdensome or less hard to bear |
| adversity | A state or condition contrary to well-being |
| belligerent | Manifesting a warlike spirit |
| benevolent | loving others and actively wanting their well-being |
| atrocity | Great cruelty or reckless wickedness |
| candor | Th equality of frankness or outspokenness |
| clandestine | Marked by, held in or conducted with secrecy |
| clemency | mercy |
| coerce | to force |