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A Vocab List 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abatement | decrease, reduction |
| avouch | guarantee; take responsibility for: affirm |
| clandestine | furtive; surreptitious; secret |
| decapitate | to behead |
| encipher | to translate a message into code |
| flout | ridicule; scoff; mock; scorn |
| implacable | inflexible, incapable of being pleased |
| irascible | testy; touchy; irritable |
| misanthrope | person who hates human beings |
| perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| repast | meal or mealtime |
| sordid | filthy; contemptible and corrupt |