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WAI Lesson 5
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Celebrity | a famous person |
| Discredit | to harm the good reputation of someone/something |
| Endorse | to declare public support of |
| Furtive | to avoid attention in guilt; to be secretive |
| Glacial | relating to, or showing the presence of ice (in glacier form) |
| Impunity | freedom from punishment or consequences of an action |
| Inestimable | too great to calculate |
| Infallible | unable to make mistakes |
| Iniquity | immoral or unfair behavior |
| Latent | existing but not developed; hidden |
| Masterful (adj) | very skillful (in relation to a person) |
| Masterly (adv) | very skillful (in relation to an action) |
| Minimize | to reduce to the smallest possible degree |
| Mortify | to be embarrassed/humiliated |
| Oblivious | to be unaware of what is happening around |
| Stalwart | hardworking; strongly built |
| Transient | impermanent |
| Transit | the carrying of people, goods, or materials |
| Vindictive | having or showing strong desire for revenge |
| Wrangle | to have an argument; to herd (animals) |