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Vocab again

  1. Exalt (verb) - hold someone in high regard

  2. Pathos (noun) - an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion

  3. Calumny (noun) - maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations 

  4. Succor (noun) - assistance and support in times of hardship and distress

  5. Proselyte (noun) - a person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another

  6. Blight (verb) - having a damaging effect; (noun) often used to describe plant disease

  7. Incredulous (adj.) - unwilling to admit or accept what is true

  8. Chattel (noun) - property, like cattle, also any moveable property

  9. Salutary (adj.) - producing a beneficial or healthy effect

  10. Apostrophize (verb) - to address an exclamatory passage (to someone or something)

  11. Felicitous (adj.) - well-chosen or suited to the circumstances; apt

  12. Diffidence (noun) - modesty

  13. Soliloquizing (verb) - speaking even while nobody is around

  14. Candor (noun) - openness; honesty; frankness

  15. Pernicious (adj.) - having a harmful effect, especially gradually or subtly

  16. Veracity (noun) - truthfulness

  17. Specious (adj.) - superficially plausible, but wrong; misleading

  18. Execrable (adj.) - terrible; awful

  19. Impunity (noun) - exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action

  20. Chastisement (noun) - the act of scolding or punishing someone; severe criticism

  21. Manacled (adj.) - fettered (a person or a part of the body) with manacles

  22. Untrodden (adj.) - not having been walked on

  23. Abettor (noun) - person who encourages or assists someone to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime