MAT vocab 2
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| abjure | to renounce upon oath
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| abnegation | self-denial
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| abrogate | to break (a law)
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| acumen | keenness
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| adjure | to command solemnly; to beg
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| adumbrate | to foreshadow; to obscure
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| aestivate | spend the summer inactive
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| anneal | to toughen
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| apocryphal | doubtful
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| aquiline | hooked like an eagle's beak
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| arrogate | to seize without reason; to usurp
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| artifice | cleverness; ingenuity
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| attenuate | lessen in amount or force
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| bellicose | inclined to start wars
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| bromidic | lacking originality
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| bucolic | relating to rural life
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| bumptious | aggresive in an offensive way
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| cabal | group united to plot an overthrow
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| calumny | a lie about another person
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| captious | critical; fault-finding
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| cavil | to nitpick
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| chauvinism | excessive or blind patriotism
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| chimerical | wildly fanciful
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| cloy | to satiate
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| collusion | a secret (illegal) agreement
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| cynosure | the center of interest
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| defalcate | to embezzle
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| denouement | the outcome of events
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| desultory | lacking plan or purpose; random
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| diaphanous | sheer; delicate
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| dilatory | tending to cause delay
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| dilettante | one involved in many things, none seriously
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| dint | a force or power
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| disingenuous | lacking in candor
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| doughty | fearless; valiant
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| effete | exhausted, worn-out
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| endue | to provide, endow
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| enervate | to exhaust or weaken
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| exculpate | to clear of guilt
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| fervid | intense in feeling or emotion
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| foment | to instigate or arouse
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| froward | disobedient
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| fugacious | short-lived
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| fulminate | to denounce; to explode
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| glabrous | smooth; without hair
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| hirsute | hairy
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| hyaline | transparent; glassy
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| impecunious | having little or no money
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| incommodious | troublesome; inconvenient
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| inculcate | to teach by repetition
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| inimical | hostile; unfriendly
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| jocose | humorous; witty
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| lambent | flickering; softly lit
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| littoral | relating to the shore
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| lugubrious | gloomy; sorrowful
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| meretricious | attractive on the surface; superficial
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| miasma | a corrupting influence
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| nugatory | inconsequential; trifling
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| nuncupative | not written; oral
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| obfuscate | to confuse
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| onus | a burden; an obligation
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| opprobrium | disgrace due to a shameful act
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| perfidious | faithless; disloyal
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| peripatetic | wandering; itinerant
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| poltroon | a coward
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| puerile | childish; juvenile
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| pusillanimous | cowardly; fearful
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| querulous | complaining; whining
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| recidivism | repeated activity, esp. criminal
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| risible | capable of producing laughter
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| sidereal | related to the stars
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| soporific | marked by sleepiness; drowsy
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| splenetic | easily angered
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| sybaritic | voluptuous; sensual
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| venal | corruptible
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| venial | forgivable
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