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Vocabulary
Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ascetic | Extreme in self-restraint or self denial |
| Conjure | Practice magic |
| Malign | defame; to speak badly of someone or something |
| Perfunctory | Casual, superfical, done merely from a sense of duty |
| Sardonic | sneering, sarcastic |
| Blasphemy | Irreverent words about God or sacred things; evil words |
| Charlaton | pretender; quack |
| Culpable | deserving censure; responsible for wrong or error |
| Rationalize | to devise self-satisfying but incorrect reason;s for one's behavior |
| Truculent | Savage, cruel, fierce |
| Credulous | Tending to believe too readily, gullible |
| Foment | to instigate |
| Misanthrope | One who distrusts or hates mankind |
| Verbosity | wordiness |
| Voracious | Having an insatisfyable appetite |