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English ch.1-4 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assuaged | to make an unpleasant feeling less intense (v) |
| chattels | a personal possession (n) |
| impotent | helpless or powerless (adj) |
| taciturn | reserved or uncommunative in speech, saying very little (adj) |
| vapid | offering nothing that is stimulation or challenging (adj) |
| malevolent | intent to harm (adj) |
| nebulous | hazy (adj) |
| illicitly | in a way that is contrary or forbidden by laws, rules or customs (adv) |
| impressionistic | based on general ideas or reactions, rather than being rational and completely accurate (adj) |
| entailment | a situation where the owner of property has limited power over his own property (n) |
| vexations | feeling of annoyance of frustration (n) |
| sojourn | a temporary stay in place (n) |
| onslaught | a fierce of destructive attack (n) |
| dispensation | exemption from a rule or unusual requirement (n) |
| iniguities | immoral of grossly unfair behavior (n) |
| flinty | very hard, unyielding (adj) |
| furor | an outbreak of public anger or excitement (n) |
| contemptuous | scornful (adj) |
| contentious | causing or likely to cause an argument, controversial (adj) |
| diminutive | extremely/unusually small (adj) |
| Fractious | irritable and quarrelsome (adj) |
| auspicious | conductive to success, favorable (adj) |
| arbitrated | reach an authoritive judgment (v) |
| evasion | an indirect answer |
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