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Week 2 vocabulary Fr
Frankenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| panegyric | elaborate praise syn: eulogy, compliment, laudation, homage |
| recapitulatiion | a breif summary syn: synopsis, digest, encapulation, abstract |
| chimera | a fanciful illusion syn:fabrication, dream, vision, impossibility |
| repugnance | strong dispile syn: repulsion, hatred, adversion |
| devolve | to pass on; to degenerate gradually syn:transfer, deliver, delegate |
| Imperious | Arrigantly self assured syn:autoritarian, despotic |
| Malignant | Evil influence of effect syn: Deadly, destructive poinsonous |
| erroneously | with errors syn: wrongly, improperly, incorrectly |
| affectation | fakeness; phoniness; syn: insincerity, pose, pretention |
| Exemplify | act as an example syn: represent, illistrate |
| incessantly | continuously syn: constantly, relentlessly, unremitting |
| unremitting | never lessening syn: incessant, continued, persevering |
| acribe | attribue to syn: acredit, impute, refer |
| lassistude | lethargy; sluggishness syn: weariness, listlessness, torpor, stupor |
| languor | lack of energy,; indiference; slowness syn: weakness, listlessness, sluggishness |
| pertinacity | persistant determination syn: obstinacy, perserverence, doggedness,tenacity |
| convolescence | a gradual recovery from an illness syn: healing, recuporation |
| sustenance | means of living; source of nutrience syn: food, previsions, necessities |
| mien | characteristics expressive of attitude or personality syn: manner, demeaner, expression, style |
| approbation | praise; official approval syn: acclaim, accolade encomium, applaise, homage |
| diffident | shy, lacking confidence syn: timid, reticent, modest |
| dilatoriness | lateness, tendency to delay syn: sluggishness, tardiness, slowness |
| Accede | to express approval syn: assent, acquiesce, concent, concur |
| salubrious | healthful syn: curative, medicnal, tonic, theripudic, bracing |