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vocabulary # 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antiquated | obsolete,out of fashion,no longer usable |
| Arable | fit for plowing,tillable |
| Ascendancy | domination; growing power |
| Atrophy | to watse away,to wither |
| Clandstine | secret |
| Conciliate | to reconcile,to pacify,to renew friendship |
| Cursory | superficial,casual,hastily done |
| Derision | scoffing at,mockery,ridicule |
| Enmity | absolute haterd |
| Extricate | to free,to disentagle |
| Forbearance | patience,lenience |
| Frivolous | lacking in seriousness or importance |
| Garrulous | talkative,rambling |
| Impetuous | violent,hasty,rash,implusive |
| Industrious | skillfully busy or occupied |
| Infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind,vicious,notriously bad |
| Insolence | insulting or contemptous behavior |
| Levity | excessive frivolity,flippancy |
| Oblivion | state of being forgotten |
| Paradoxical | something that appears false or contradictory |
| Perjury | false testimony under oath |
| Rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will,enmity |
| Sycophant | a self-serving flatterer,brownnoser |
| Vacillating | changing,fluctuating |
| Vivid | bright,distanct,and clear |