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Vocab. Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| articulate | (verb) to pronounce distinctly and carefully: enunciate |
| credence | (noun) acceptance as true or valid; belief; trustworthiness |
| decry | (verb) to disparage or belittle openly; to censure |
| derogatory | (adj.) detracting or disparaging |
| distraught | (adj.) anxious or agitated; harried or worried |
| eulogy | (noun) a public speech or written tribute extolling the virtues or achievements of a person, especially one who is deceased |
| exhume | (verb) to bring to light or uncover; to disinter |
| feckless | (adj.) lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective |
| intractable | (adj.) difficult to manage or govern, stubborn |
| nefarious | (adj.) evil, famous |
| piquant | (adj.) pleasantly pungent in taste or odor; spicy |
| primordial | (adj.) being or happening first in sequence or time; original |
| propinquity | (n.) nearness; proximity |
| unwonted | (adj.) not habitual or ordinary; unusual |
| utopian | (adj.) excellent or ideal but existing only in visionary or impractical thought or theory |
| verbiage | (n.) wordiness; tending to use excess words |
| verdant | (adj.) green with vegetation |
| viscous | (adj.) having a high resistance to flow |