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Chapter 7&8 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Degenerate | To get worse, deteriorate |
| Implausible | Unbelievable, Difficult to believe, unlikely |
| Incoherent | Unclear, unable to speak in an orderly, logical way |
| Intercede | To plead for someone, to make a request or plead on behalf of someone else |
| Intricate | Complicated, having many parts arranged in complicated a way; complex |
| Sanctuary | A shelter, a place of safety, protection, or relief |
| Scrutiny | Attention, close inspection; careful examination |
| Sinister | Evil; wicked |
| Suffice | To be adequate, to be good enough |
| Vulnerable | Open; open to damage or attack; susceptible |
| Blatant | Scrambled, to mix up or confuse |
| Blight | Something that harms, damages or destroys |
| Contrive | To think up, to plan cleverly |
| Garble | To lose, very obvious, often offensively so |
| Gaunt | Very thin, bony |
| Gloat | To be overly self-satisfied, to feel or express delight, often spitefully |
| Immaculate | Spotless, perfectly clean |
| Plagiarism | The stealing of ideas, using someone else’s writings or ideas as one’s own |
| Qualm | A guilty feeling, an uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is |
| Retaliate | To take revenge, to return an injury for an injury; pay back |