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Dillon Vocab 5thWeek
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rampant | going unchecked, widespread |
| inane | foolish |
| ethics | code of principals |
| concur | agree |
| clandestine | secret, undercover |
| stock in trade | the goods, tools and other requirements for a proffesion |
| flagrant | outrageously bad, |
| admonish | to warn |
| duress | compulsion, force |
| culprit | the guilty person |
| inexorable | inflexable, unrelenting |
| to take down a peg | to take down the conceit out of a bragger |
| eregious | remarkably bad |
| distraught | mentally confused, crazed |
| duplicity | cunning, trickery |
| acrimonious | bitter |
| paucity | scarcity |
| to pass the buck | to evade responsibilty |
| elicit | to draw forth |
| pernicious | harmful, causing injury |
| tolerate | to put up with, to bear |
| construe | to make a deduction, to infer |
| impunity | freedom from punishment |
| to lionize a person | to make a big fuss ofer someone |