Vocabulary set two
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Lamentation |  The passionate expression of grief |
| Benevolent | Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable |
| Blasphemy | A contemptuous or profane, utterance, or writing concern God or a sacred entity |
| Chasm | A deep steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge |
| Contrive | To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan |
| Derision | Contemptuous or jeering laughter ridicule [usually the object of a preposition] |
| Eccentric | Departing from conventional norms or patterns; strange odd. |
| Effigy | a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the penny bears an effigy of Lincoln" |
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