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ELA Vocab Unit 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Susurrus | a soft murmuring or rustling sound; whisper |
| Twitterpated | excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten |
| Pellucid | allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent; clear |
| Fugacious | fleeting; transient |
| Agglomerate | to collect or gather into a cluster or mass |
| Crinkum-crankum | a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns |
| Argle-bargle | copious but meaningless talk or writing; nonsense |
| Saturnine | slow and gloomy; dark in coloring and moody or mysterious |
| Subsume | include or absorb (something) in something else |
| Neep | a turnip |
| Cordial | warm and friendly |
| Abdicate | renounce one's throne;fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty) |
| Acumen | the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain |
| Sycophant | a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage |
| Premise | a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion |
| Culpable | deserving blame |