Vocab Quiz 11

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Aesthetic

Pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty.

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Asperity

Roughness, severity, bitterness or tartness

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Cautious

Excessively ready to find fault: given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up.

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Delectable

An appealing or appetizing food or dish

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Ebullient

Repugnant, repulsive, distasteful.

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Espouse

To take up and support; to become attached to, adopt, to marry

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Hapless

Marked by persistent absence of good luck

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Impecunious

Having little or no money

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Inexorable

Inflexible, beyond influence, relentless, unyielding

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Interpolate

To insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction.

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Languish

To become weak, Febe, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect

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Machination

Crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end

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Moratorium

A suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay.

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Obsequious

Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self interested reasons.

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Opprobrium

Disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt; reproach

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Pariah

One who is rejected by a social group or organization.

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Pittance

A woefully meager allowance, wage or portion

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Plaintive

Expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy

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Rebuff

To snub; to repel, drive away; a curt rejection, a check

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Requite

To make suitable repayment, as for kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong; to reciprocate.

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