Unit 4 and 3

Ascertain

To find out.

Attainment

An accomplishment, the act of achieving.

Bequeath

To give or pass on as an inheritance.

Converge

To move toward one point, approach nearer together.

Expunge

To erase, obliterate, destroy.

Finite

Having limits; lasting for a limited time.

Malevolent

Spiteful, showing ill will.

Nonchalant

Cool and confident, unconcerned.

Omniscient

Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding.

Panacea

A remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems.

Scrupulous

Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled.

Skulk

To move about stealthily; to lie in hiding.

Supercilious

Proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority.

Uncanny

Strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation.

Venial

Easily excused; pardonable.

Adversary

An enemy, opponent.

Artifice

A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery.

Coerce

To compel, force.

Craven

Cowardly; (n.) a coward.

Demise

A death, especially of a person in a lofty position.

Harass

To disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks.

Inclement

Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action.

Muse

To think about in a dreamy way, ponder.

Negligible

So unimportant that it can be disregarded.

Perpetuate

To make permanent or long lasting.

Precedent

An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action.

Punitive

Inflicting or aiming at punishment.

Redress

To set right, remedy; (n.) relief from wrong or injury.

Sojourn

A temporary stay; (v.) to stay for a time.

Urbane

Refined in manner or style, suave.