Flashcards: Vocabulary 17
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kasielasserre1 on March 3, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abjure | recant, renounce, repudiate, reject |
| Yeoman | An attendant, servant, or a lesser official |
| Wrought | Put together, created |
| Xenophobe | Fearful or contemptuous of strangers or foreigners |
| Abrogate | To abolish or annul by authority |
| Abstemious | Eating or drinking in moderation |
| Epiphany | Revelation |
| Chicanery | Deception by trickery |
| Deciduous | Not lasting or ephemeral |
| Enfranchise | To endow with the rights of citizenship |
| Fatuous | Foolish in a selfsatisied way, silly |
| Homogeneous | Uniform in composition or stucture |
| Inculate | To instill or teach |
| Kowtow | To show servile difference |
| Lexicon | Vocabulary or dictionary |
| Moiety | Part, portion, or share |
| Nihilism | Beleif that the destruction of existing political institutions is necessary for future improvement |
| Oligarchy | Government by a few |
| Omnipotent | All powerful |
| Paradigm | One that serves as a pattern or model |