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English 4 .2
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Absolve | to clear guilt, or to free from a promise |
Adumbrate | to foreshadow in an indirect way |
Apothegm | a short, instructive saying |
Aspersion | a defamatory expression: stander |
Coadjutor | one who works with another, an assistant |
Congenital | existing at or dating frame birth, being an essential characteristic |
Elan | a lively spirit with a distinctive style |
Germane | pertinent and fitting |
Hiatus | an interruption or gap in space, continuity, or time |
Immure | to confine within or as if within walls, to imprison |
Ineluctable | not to be avoided or changed: inevitable |
Internecine | marked by slaughter; mutually destructive |
Invoke | to appeal to earnestly |
Prototype | a person or thing that serves as an example of its kind - an original |
Quadrennial | occurring every 4 years |