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vocab 3,2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tenuous | thin,slender,slight of importance or significance, lacking a sound basis, poorly supported |
| acculturation | adopting the ways of another social group |
| inadvertent | resulting form or marked by lack of attention, unintentional, accidental |
| expedite | to make easy, cause to progress faster |
| expiate | to make amends, atone, make up for |
| ferment | state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence, commotion, turmoil, unrest |
| circuitous | roundabout, not direct |
| commiserate | to sympathize with, have pity/sorrow for, share a feeling of distress |
| enjoin | to direct/order, to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way, to prohibit |
| adventitious | resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause/character, accidental, not essential |
| ascribe | to assign or refer to as a cause or source, attribute |
| abominate | to have an intense dislike/hatred for |