Wordly Wise List 5
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JohnnyEdman on December 11, 2010
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18 terms
Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Acumen | keenness of mind |
| Atone | make amends |
| Bucolic | pastoral |
| Codicil | addition to a will |
| Dissension | quarreling |
| Egress | way out |
| Emolument | salary |
| Equity | fairness |
| Exegesis | critical interpretation |
| Fetish | object believed to have magical properties; object of excessive devotion |
| Incursion | sudden invasion |
| Itinerant | traveling |
| Libation | poured offering |
| Nuptial | wedding |
| Patrimony | estate inherited from one's father |
| Precedent | act used to justify a later one; earlier |
| Sobriquet | assumed name |
| Yaw | swing off course |
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