Vocab Unit 15 D G Word Scramble
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Amenity | n. that which is pleasant or agreeable; attractive features, customs |
Aperture | n. an opening, gap, hole; orifice |
Dissidence | n. a difference of opinion; discontent |
Epicurean | adj. devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort, and ease; with discriminating taste. n. a person with discriminating taste |
Improvident | adj. not thrifty, failing to plan ahead |
Iniquity | n. wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act |
Inviolable | adj. sacred, of such a character that it must not be broken, injured, or profaned |
Mutable | adj. open to a capable of change, fickle |
Nascent | adj. just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence |
Obeisance | n. a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference, homage |
Panegyric | n. formal or elaborate praise; a tribute |
Pillory | n. a device for publicly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public contempt or ridicule; v. to expose to public contempt or ridicule |
Pittance | n. a woefully meager allowance, wage or portion |
Presage | v. to foreshadow or point to a future event; to predict; n. a warning or indication of the future |
Progeny | n. descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples |
Promulgate | v. to proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide |
Rectitude | n. uprightness, righteousness, correctness |
Restive | adj. restless, hard to manage, balky |
Seraphic | adj. angelic, heavenly, celestial |
Subsist | v. to have existence; to remain alive, manage to make a living or maintain life; to persist or continue |
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