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Vocab Lesson 8
Honors English II Vocab Lesson 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aegis | Protection; sponsorship; guidance |
| Amends | Something done to make up for a wrong, an injury, or a mistake |
| Conciliatory | Peacemaking; appeasing; intended to overcome distrust, animosity, or conflict |
| Conducive | Tending to cause or bring about; favorable to |
| Extricate | To free from difficulty or entanglement |
| Importune | To annoy with repeated and insistent requests; to ask for urgently or repeatedly |
| Mediate | To help opposing sides reach an agreement; to intervene in a conflict in order to improve the situation |
| Mitigate | To make less severe, to soften, lessen, or moderate. |
| Patronizer | To support or sponsor To go as a customer; to shop regularly To treat as inferior |
| Renovate | To restore something to an earlier condition, by repairing or remodeling |