T3 English Vocab 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acumen | ability to make good judgments |
| arrears | an unpaid overdue debt |
| caricature | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect |
| clemency | leniency and compassion; mercy |
| divest | to reduce or dispose of |
| epoch | a period or era |
| feckless | generally incompetent and ineffectual |
| harbor | to mainain |
| implacable | incapable of being appeased |
| inexorable | impervious to pleas and persuasion |
| luminary | who celebrity who is an inspiration to others |
| mercenary | use of soldiers hired by a foreign army; profit oriented |
| opt | to select as an alternative |
| postumous | occuring or coming into existence after a person's death |
| qualm | uneasiness about the fitness of an action |
| requiem | a mass celebrated for the dead |
| sallow | unhealthy looking |
| spectral | resembling a phantom |
| tactual | producing a sensation of touch |
| verity | an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth |
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