Week 12 SLA Vocab

1. Abscond: To leave secretly, evading detection.

2. Adulterate: To contaminate or make impure by introducing inferior elements.

3. Coalesce: To come together, especially from disparate parts.

4. Contend: Assert or claim, grapple with.

5. Convoluted: Roundabout, not straightforward.

6. Demur: To object or raise concerns.

7. Deride: To mock or ridicule.

8. Desiccate: To dry out completely, to suck out the vitality and passion.

9. Dogma: The official beliefs or tenets of particular sect or group.

10.  Eulogy: Memorial speech for one who has passed, normally given at a funeral.

11.  Fallacious: Relying on a fallacy and thus incorrect/misinformed.

12.  Harangue: Diatribe or rant.

13.  Litigation: Legal proceedings.

14.  Misanthrope: Person who hates humanity.

15.  Mitigate: To improve a painful, unpleasant, or negative situation.

16.  Offset: To counterbalance or counteract.

17.  Substantiate: To corroborate or give evidence of something.

18.  Tractable: Can be easily influenced or managed.

19.  Undermine: To weaken or compromise.

20.  Whimsical: Fanciful or capricious.