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Vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assert | to express or declare firmly |
| astute | showing keen judgement; crafty |
| atrocious | wicked or cruel; exceedingly bad |
| autonomy | independence |
| axiom | a self-evident truth |
| balmy | mild and pleasant; soothing |
| bayou | a marshy inlet or the outlet of a river or lake in parts of the southern US |
| bedlem | an uproar or confusion |
| beguile | to cheat or deceive |
| besiege | to surround in order to capture; to crowd around |
| bestride | to straddle |
| bias | a prejudice or personal tendency; a line slanting diagonally across the weave of a fabric |
| botch | to spoil by poor work |
| bourgeois | the middle class |
| breach | to violate |
| buffet | a meal set or so that people may serve themselves; a piece of dining room furniture |
| callous | unfeeling; thick and hardened |
| canine | of or like a dog |
| cant | insincere talk |
| carp | to complain |