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Vocab 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Repudiate | refuse to accept or be associated with |
| Innuendo | an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one |
| Premeditation | the action of planning something (especially a crime) beforehand |
| Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud by oneself or regardless of any hearers |
| Enigmatic | difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious |
| Lecherous | having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire |
| Cleave | split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain |
| Epitaph | phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died |
| Diadem | a jeweled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty |
| Swaddle | wrap (someone, especially a baby) in garments or cloth |
| Congregation | a group of people assembled for religious worship |
| Firmament | the heavens or the sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing |
| Promontory | a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland |
| Modesty | the quality or being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities |
| Strumpet | a woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships |
| Lunacy | extremely foolish, eccentric, or irrational behavior; extreme folly or eccentricity |
| Avert | turn away (one's eyes or thoughts) |
| Celestial | positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy |
| Sate | satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full |
| Radiant | sending out light; shining or glowing brightly |