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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 allure | to influence, sway, or entice with some tempting appeal |
| apathy | a lack of concern or feeling, indifference |
| auspicious | favorable |
| caricature | a portrayal where features are distorted, a parody |
| cordial | courteous and gracious; friendly; warm |
| cosmopolitan | dealing with the whole world |
| deplore | to regret deeply or strongly; to feel or to express deep grief for |
| discrepant | disagreeing, inconsistent |
| ecstasy | extreme happiness |
| empathy | understanding or identification with another's feelings or situation |
| equivocal | ambiguous (usually intended to mislead) |
| expeditious | done with speed and efficiency |
| galvanize | to stimilute or to excite as if by an electric shock |
| implacable | incapable of being appeased |
| inimitable | not able to be imitated |
| mutability | the degree to which something is subject and likely |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt |
| parochial | limited in range or scope, narrow, provincial |
| penchant | a strong inclination |
| ponderous | very heavy, unwieldly from weight |
| protract | to prolong |
| replete | filled to capacity, abundantly supplied |
| soporific | something that tends to cause sleep and to dull awareness or alertness |
| strident | loud and harsh sounding |
| treachery | violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason |
| adulterate | to make impure by adding lesser substances; to corrupt |
| animosity | harsh feelings, enmity, resentment, hatred |
| apocryphal | of doubtful origin or authenticity, not genuine |
| avarice | greed for wealth |
| coalesce | to work together |
| collaborate | to work together |
| cryptic | mysterious, secret |
| desultory | jumping around, aimless, random |
| dissipation | wasteful spending, squandering |
| edifying | instructing and improving spiritually or morally |
| equivocate | to attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth |
| espousing | marrying, giving one's loyalty; adopting or embracing a cause |
| hedonist | one who seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life |
| indefatigable | tireless, incapable of being fatigued |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted |
| naive | unsophisticated; unexperienced |
| parody | humorous or ridiculous imitation |
| peripheral | on the edge, not important |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| prodigious | extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous |
| profane | showing contempt toward sacred things |
| respite | a rest, a delay, a period of relief |
| sordid | filthy, foul |
| surfeited | fed or supplied to excess |
| trifling | not significant, frivolous |
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