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vocab 8
Question | Answer |
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allay | to reduce the intensity of; relieve; pacify ant:excite |
ameliorate | to make better, improve ant: worsen |
asperity | roughness or harshness; severity ant: midlness |
exegesis | an analysis; interpretation of |
extradite | to release an accused criminal to another jurisdiction |
hypocrisy | duplicity, falseness ant: sincerity |
inveigh | to protest, oppose |
lionize | to honor or celebrate |
pander | to act as a go between; to exploit weaknesses of others |
profligate | wasteful; immoral ant:moral |
recalcitrant | stubbornly resistant ant: compliant |
renunciation | rejection;abandonment ant: claim,acceptance |
unimpeachable | beyond doubt; unquestionable ant:discredited |
unwieldy | not easily held ant: manageable |
vitiate | to reduce the value of; to corrupt or debase |