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A Vocab List 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acumen | sharpness of insight |
| bemuse | to confuse, stupefy; plunge deep into thought |
| cognition | mental process by which knowledge is acquired |
| deflation | decrease, depreciation |
| engender | generate; produce; cause |
| forswear | repudiate; forsake; eschew |
| importune | to ask repeatedly, beg |
| jollity | gaiety; merriment |
| mitigate | to soften, or make milder |
| pervert | to cause to change in immoral way; to misuse |
| repression | act of restraining or holding in |
| stasis | motionless state; stand still |