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unit 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| atone | (v.) to make up for. |
| bondage | (n.) slavery; any state of being bound or held down. |
| credible | (adj.) believable. |
| defray | (v.) to pay for. |
| diligent | (adj.) hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
| doleful | (adj.) sad; dreary |
| ghastly | (adj.) frightful, horrible; deathly pale. |
| hamper | (v.) to hold back. |
| hew | (v.) to shape or cute down with an axe; to hold to. |
| impoverished | (adj.) poor, in a state of poverty, depleetd. |
| incessant | (adj.)never stopping, going on all the time. |
| intricate | (adj.) complicated, difficult to understand. |
| lucid | (adj.) easy to understand, easy, retional, sane. |
| posthumous | (adj.) occuring or published after death. |
| prim | (adj.) overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish. |
| sardonic | (adj.) grimly or scorfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic. |
| superflous | (adj.) exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess. |
| supplant | (v.) to take the place of, supersede. |
| taunt | (v.) to jeer to mock; (n.) an insulting or mocking remark. |
| tenacious | (adj.) holdong fast; holding together firmly; persistant. |