Vocab Chapter 13

Affluent

Wealthy and privileged

Superfluous

Additional to what is necessary; EXTRA

Mellifluous

Sweetly flowing or sounding (think melody)

Leaven

To make less heavy or serious

To lighten

Levity

Lack of seriousness; Jolly or joking manner

Alleviate

To make less painful or dangerous

Elapse

To slip away; to go by

Collapse

A complete failure and ruin

Relapse

A falling back into an old illness or habit

Recede

To move back or away from

Concession

Something given up or yielded

Cede

To surrender