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Anglais Final
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Evocative | Suggestive. |
| Precluded | not allowed, prohibited, unacceptable. |
| Acumen | keen insight, shrewdness. |
| Inveterate | firmly established, habitual. |
| Saunter | walk slowly, in an unhurried or effortless manner. |
| Vehemently | passionately, strongly. |
| Tenacity | persistence, obstinacy. |
| Solicitous | anxious or concerned. |
| Vicarious | to live through another. |
| Irascible | irritable, easily provoked to anger. |
| Deleterious | injurious to health. |
| Abrogate | to abolish by formal or official means. |
| Effrontery | shameless behaviour, nerve. |
| Abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking, temperate in diet. |
| Nomenclature | a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art. |
| Auspicious | promising succes, propitious, opportune, favorable. |
| Chicanery | trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry. |
| Expurgate | to amend by removing words / passages etc. deemed offensive or objectionable. |
| Fatuous | foolish or inane, especially in an uncounscious, complacent manner, silly. |
| Loquacious | talking or tending to talk much or freely, talkative, chattering, babbling, garrulous. |