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APLang&Comp10
List 10: Vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ameliorate | to improve or make better |
| Amicable | friendly |
| Beneficial | helpful or useful |
| Benign | kind or mild; having a gentle disposition |
| Blissful | joyous; ecstatic |
| Conciliate | to make peace through reasoning; to appraise |
| Essence | the basic character or quality of a thing |
| exemplary | worthy of imitation; admiration |
| Extol | to praise highly |
| Finesse | delicacy or skill in handling a situation |
| Genteel | refined or well-bred |
| Integrity | honesty, incorruptibility |
| laudatory | praising or complimentary |
| luscious | delicious, mouth-watering |
| munificent | extremely generous or charitable |
| omnipotent | all-powerful |
| pulchritude | physical beauty |
| sublime | lofty; of high intellectual or spiritual worth |
| tranquil | peaceful or calm |
| veracious | truthful |
| defame | to slander, libel, or discredit |
| defile | to make dirty; to dishonor or corrupt |
| depravity | wickedness or corruption |
| desecrate | to defile, violate, or contaminate something sacred |
| despicable | contemptible or worthy of scorn |
| flagrant | outrageous or scandalous |
| guile | deceit or treachery |
| hedonistic | pleasure-loving |
| imperil | to endanger or jeopardize |
| infernal | hellish |
| insolence | rudeness; insulting behavior |
| lewd | indecent or obscene |
| malevolent | showing ill will; spiteful |
| marauder | a person or animal that makes raids for booty |
| morbid | unhealthy or unwholesome; gloomy |
| odious | hateful or offensive |
| prodigal | wasteful; spending too much |
| profane | having no regard for sacred things |
| revile | to verbally abuse |
| subvert | to overthrow or destroy |