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Vocab Set 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abet | To assist in something bad |
| Abstruse | Hard to understand, complex and abstract |
| Agnostic | Believing something is unknowable, particularly the existence of god |
| Alacrity | Eagerness, quickness |
| Altruistic | Motivated by care for others; selfless and caring |
| Apostate | Deserter, traitor, betrayer |
| Banal | Unoriginal, commonplace, boring |
| Cadaverous | Pale, haggard, worn down, corpse-like |
| Callous | Insensitive, cruel, hard-hearted |
| Cantankerous | Bad-natured, grumpy, quarrelsome |
| Capricious | Flighty, changing one's mind on a whim |
| Charlatan | Fraud, imposter; a person pretending to be something they are not |
| Connoisseur | someone who knows a lot about a certain topic |
| Cursory | Hasty, careless, brief and unthorough |
| Deleterious | Harmful, destructive, especially in a subtle or long-term way |
| Demur | To refuse, to say no to something or object to it hesitantly |
| Dilatory | Inclined to dawdle, causing delay, sluggish |
| Divulge | To reveal publicly, to disclose information |