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Unit 3. Vocabulary
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| extort | to obtain by threat or violence |
| avarice | greed for riches |
| efface | erase, wipe out |
| sublime | inspiring awe or admiration through grandeur or beauty |
| ominous | threating |
| venerable | worthy of respect |
| patriarch | the father and ruler of a family or tribe |
| sepulcher | grave; tomb |
| appellation | name or title |
| iniquity | sin |
| waggery | mischievous humor |
| obstinacy | stubbornness |
| indecorous | improper |
| ostentation | boastful display |
| conspicuous | obvious; easy to see or perceive |
| pensive | thinking deeply or seriously |
| suffrage | vote or voting |
| posterity | all succeeding generations |
| magnanimity | ability to rise above pettiness or meanness |
| superfluous | excessive; not necessary |
| radiant | shinning brightly |
| aversion | object arousing an intense or definite dislike |
| chaos | disorder or formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe |