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Vocab 1-3 Tri 1

Units 1-3 for Tri 1 Exam

QuestionAnswer
approbation approval The approbation I was given made it possible for me to miss the exam.
assuage to make easier. The silence assuaged my studying
elicit to draw forth The judge elicited the true information
expostulate an attempt to dissuade someone I expostulated the girl from dating the boy
prerogative special right or privalage The women felt as though her being late for work was a prerogative for working at the company for so long
provincial narrow minded The provincial boy often found himself in arguments because he could never understand other sides of a situation
simulate to imitate The singer had a way of simulating situations that she had never actually been in.
ameliorate to make better The teacher helped ameliorate the student's paper by looking it over with her after every draft
epitome a summary The epitome made it easier to study the information
intrinsic belonging to someone by nature The girl's christmas present that had been passed down from the family had intrinsic meaning
inveigh to make violent attack in words The entire party inveighed the idea before they had heard all of the terms.
occult mysterious, supernatural While waking through the graveyard on halloween, they saw an occult figure they believed to be a ghost
surmise to think or believe without supporting evidence The girl surmised the story even though she had not heard any reason to believe it
acculturation modification of social patterns The international students went through a slow process of acculturation after arriving at the American school
adventitious resulting from chance It was very adventitious that both girls chose the same car
peculate to steal something that had been given into one's trust The man had been peculating the company's money for years
proclivity natural tendency She showed a proclivity for math class, probably because her parents were mathmaticians
seditious resistant to law The people became very seditious towards the overpowering government
tenuous not dense Her grasp of the world around her was very tenuous
vitriolic bitter, sarcastic The teachers were very unimpressed with the student's vitriolic behavior in class
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