tri 3 vocab

1. amoral (adj) being outside or beyond the moral order or a particular code of morals

<amoral customs>

2. eclectic (adj) selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or styles

3. flounder (v) to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

4. inhibit (v) to prohibit from doing something

5. perusal (n) reading over in an attentive or leisurely manner

6. refute (v) to prove wrong by argument or evidence: show to be false or erroneous

7. secular (adj) of or relating to the worldly or temporal <secular concerns>; not overtly or

specifically religious <secular music>

8. acquiesce (v) to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively -- often used with in and

sometimes with to

9. collusion (n) secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose

10. efface (v) to make (oneself) modestly or shyly inconspicuous (usually used as a

participle: an effacing personality)

11. improvident (adj) not foreseeing and providing for the future

12. vicissitudes (n) a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or

unpleasant

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13. oscillate (v) to vary between opposing beliefs, feelings, or theories

14. plethora (n) excess, superfluity; also: profusion, abundance

15. rescind (v) to take away: to cancel or to remove

16. subvert (v) to pervert or corrupt by an undermining of morals, allegiance, or faith

adhere (v) to bind oneself to observance

18. consensus (n) general agreement: unanimity <the consensus of their opinion, based on

reports... from the border -- John Hersey>: the judgment arrived at by most of those

concerned <the consensus was to go ahead>

19. defame (v) to harm the reputation of by libel or slander

20. grovel (v) to give oneself over to what is base or unworthy: wallow <groveling in self-

pity>

21. interminable (adj) having or seeming to have no end; especially wearisomely protracted

<an interminable sermon>

22. mutable (adj) capable of change or of being changed

23. parity (n) the quality or state of being equal or equivalent

24. quiescent (adj) marked by inactivity or repose: tranquilly at rest

25. restive (adj) stubbornly resisting control; marked by impatience