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Week 6 vocab..
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accost | To confront verbally |
| Adept | Extremely skilled |
| Bane | a burden |
| chastise | to criticize severely |
| compuntion | distress caused by feeling guilty |
| deferential | showing respect for another's authority |
| diligent | showing care in doing one's work |
| efface | to whip out, rub away |
| ephemeral | short-lived |
| genial | freindly |
| harrowing | greatly distressing |
| incorrigible | incapable of correction |
| lucid | clear, easily understandable |
| nonchalant | having a lack of concern, indifferent |
| ornate | excessively decorated |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| perplex | to confuse |
| quell | to control or diffuse a potentially explosive situation |
| rebuke | to scold, criticize |
| repulse | to disgust |
| staid | sedate, serious, self-restrained |
| surmise | to infer with little evidence |
| tacit | expressed without words |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength |
| vigilant | watchful; alert |