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Final Review Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pithily | to the point; brief |
| sovereignty | royalty |
| resolute | set in purpose or opinion |
| ailing | sickly; troubled |
| reveled | to take great pleasure or delight |
| adroit | clever/skillful using hands or mind |
| affront | an action or remark causing offense |
| armistice | an agreement made by opposing sides in war to stop fighting for some time |
| dogma | system of principles |
| dissolution | act of dissolving |
| disconcerted | confused |
| dispensation | system of order |
| heedless | careless, thoughtless |
| indigent | poor |
| miscreant | person who behaves badly or breaks the law |
| pariah | an outcast |
| remonstrance | a protest |
| superfluous | extravagant |
| derisive | mocking |
| devoid | free form |
| furtive | done by stealth |
| idyll | an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque piece of work in poetry |
| impart | to communicate information |
| imperceptibly | not perceptible by sense or mind |
| obliterate | to remove from recognition of memory |
| ostracize | to exclude from a group by common consent |
| rebuke | to criticize |
| concede | to admit that something is true after first denying it |
| communal | shared by all members of a community |
| elude | to escape from danger |
| esoteric | understood by a select few; private |
| expedient | convenient and practical, although possibly immoral |
| falter | to hesitate |
| fastidious | difficult to please |
| sinister | threatening evil or trouble |
| surpassed | to become better, greater, or stronger |
| unscathed | not injured |
| quixotic | impractical |
| tousled | disordered |
| zeal | great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an object; passion |