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APlang vocab 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allay | to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet. |
| Capacious | capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin |
| Diurnal | of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily |
| Extricate | to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation |
| Ignominious | marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat |
| Mitigate | to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate |
| Palpitate | to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc |
| Phlegmatic | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish |
| Propitious | presenting favorable conditions; favorable |
| Prostrate | lying face down |
| Acquisece | to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent |
| Amity | friendship; peaceful harmony |
| Arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult |
| Gestalt | a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole |
| Inundate | to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge |