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vocab 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |