Vocabulary lesson 3 definitions

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English

10th

25 Terms

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Abstruse

Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed

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Affable

Friendly, courteous, amiable

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Audacity

Excessive boldness, rashness, daring

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Contrite

Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

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Credulous

Believing on slight evidence, gullible

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Depravity

Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

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Deprecate

To disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval

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Didactic

Instructive, designed to teach

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Dormant

Inactive, sleeping

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Enigmatic

Mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling

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Erudite

Scholarly

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12

Exotic

Foreign unfamiliar

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13

Fuse

To mix or to join [usually by melting]

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14

Immutable

Unchanging

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Incorrigible

Incapable of being reformed or improved

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Loathe

To detest

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Mitigate

To cause to become less harsh or hostile: to make less severe

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Nullify

To cause not to be in effect, negate

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19

Pacifistic

Opposed to war or use of force

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Pretentious

Making an extravagant outward show, self important

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Prologue

Introductory remarks in speech, play or literary work, introductory action

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Recant

To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke

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Servile

Overly submissive

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Trepidation

Fear, trembling, agitation

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Villify

To malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

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