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vocab 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| flout | to mock, scoff at, sneer at, snicker at |
| caveat | warning, caution to prevent/discourage |
| blazon | to broadcast, trumpet, embellish, adorn, display conspicuously |
| filch | to steal in a sneaky way and petty amounts, to pilfer, purloin, swipe |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome, unruly, refractory, recalcitrant, peevish |
| equitable | fair, just, embodying principles of justice, right, reasonable |
| autonomy | self-government, home rule |
| addendum | addition/supplement to increase correctness completeness or currency, appendix |
| amnesty | general pardon for offense against gov., absolution, forgiveness |
| axiomatic | self-evident, expressing universally accepted principle/rule, taken for granted |
| extricate | to free from entanglements/difficulties, extract, disengage |
| soporific | tending to cause/induce sleep, a narcotic, anesthetic |
| scathing | bitterly severe, withering, searing, harsh, ferocious, savage |
| unwieldy | not easily carried/handled/managed, cumbersome, bulky, clumsy |
| vapid | dull, uninteresting, tiresome, lacking sharpness/flavor, insipid, lifeless, colorless |
| prognosticate | to predict, to foretell, forecast |
| sepulchral | funereal, typical of the tomb, gloomy, dismal, doleful, lugubrious, mortuary |
| salutary | beneficial, helpful, healthy, wholesome, salubrious |
| straitlaced | extremely strict, prudish, puritanical, highly conventional, stuffy |
| scourge | to whip, punish severely, a cause of suffering/source of punishment/criticism, to flog, a plague, pestilence |
| precept | rule of conduct/action, principle, a maxim |
| transient | lasting a short time, fleeting, impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent |