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Vocabulary test 1-20
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Austere | Forbiddingly stern |
| Autonomous | Self-governing |
| Belie | Contradict; give a false impression |
| Bolster | support; reinforce |
| Brevity | Conciseness |
| Calculated | deliberately planned; likely |
| Capricious | unpredictable; fickle |
| Censure | blame; criticize |
| Commemorate | honor the memory of |
| Complacency | Self-satisfaction |
| Composure | Mental Calmness |
| Concede | Admit, yield |
| Concise | Brief and compact |
| Condone | Overlook;forgive give tacit approval |
| Confound | Confuses puzzle |
| Constraint | Compulsion; repression of feelings |
| Contentious | quarrelsome |
| Conviction | judgement that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held in belief |
| Corroborate | Confirm;support |
| Criterion | Standard used in judging |
| Cursory | Casual; hastily done |
| Decorum | propriety, orderliness and good taste in manners. |
| Degradation | Humiliation, debasement, degeneration |
| Denounce | Condemn, criticize |
| Depravity | extreme corruption, wickedness |
| deride | ridicule, make fun of |
| Despondent | depressed, gloomy |
| deterrent | something that discourages; hindrance |
| Devious | roundabout, erratic; not straightforward |
| Diffuse | wordy; rambling, spread out (like gas) |