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List 2 definination
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Winsome | Generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm or innocence |
| Winsome | Cheerful, lighthearted |
| Winsome | Attractive or charming in a simple way |
| Penance | voluntary self-punishment to atone (to address a wrongdoing) for a sin, crime, etc. |
| Penance | a feeling of regret for one’s wrongdoings. |
| Penance | a penitential (relating to showing sorrow) discipline imposed by church authority. |
| Penance | a sacrament (a ritual), as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment (change of sinful ways), followed by the forgiveness of the sin. |
| Denounce | To pronounce especially publicly to be blame worthy or bad |
| Tenuous | having little substance or strength; weak flimsy |
| Tenuous | Not dense; rare |
| Entreaty | An earnest or humble request |
| Entreaty | An attempt to persuade someone to Do something |
| Divine | Relating to God or heavenly |
| Divine | Relating to religion |
| Divine | discover by intuition or locating something |
| Resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |
| Paroxysm | A fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) |
| Paroxysm | A sudden violent emotion or action |
| Exculpate | To clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| Redolent | excluding fragrance : aromatic (of, or relating to, or having an aroma |
| Redolent | Full of a specified fragrance : scented |
| Redolent | Evocative, (evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response) suggestive (giving a suggestion : indicative) |
| Jargon | The technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group. |
| Jargon | Obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words. |
| Jargon | A strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect |
| Retrench | cutdown : reduce |
| Retrench | to pare away : remove |
| Prepossessing | Tending to create a favorable impression |
| Milieu | The physical or social setting in which people live or in which something occurs or develops. |
| Milieu | Surroundings, especially of a social or culturally nature |
| Vitiate | To make ineffective |
| Vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| Vitiate | to debase in moral or aesthetic status |
| Fetid | Having a heavy offensive smell. |
| Fetid | Having a offensive odor; stinking. |
| Reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person |
| Reprobate | to condemn strongly as unworthy, unacceptable, or evil |
| Reprobate | To refuse to accept, reject |
| Extol | To praise highly or glorify |
| Obsequious | Characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please |
| Libel | the act of printing a statement about somebody that is not true and that gives people a bad opinion of them; the statement that is printed |
| Libel | A defamatory statement or representation especially in the form of written or printed word |
| Pontificate | To serve or officiate, especially in a pontifical mass |
| Pontificate | To speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way |
| Pontificate | The office or term of office of a pontiff |
| Retrospect | the act or process or an instance of surveying the past |
| Retrospect | a review of or meditation on past events |
| Retrospect | to go back over in thought |
| Vilify | To utter slanderous or abusive statements against |
| Vilify | To lower estimation or importance |
| Banal | Lacking originality, freshness, or novelty. |
| Sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| Sycophant | one who praises those in power in order to gain their approval |
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