| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abridge | To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles. |
| adherent | sticking fast |
| altercation | n. (act of) quarrelling or arguing noisily |
| cherubic | angelic; innocent looking |
| condone | overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
| dissent | a difference of opinion |
| eminent | (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation |
| exocise | to drive out by magic; to dipose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive. Syn: expel, dispel, to drive out by magic; to dipose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive. Syn: expel, dispel |
| fabricate | put together out of components or parts |
| irate | Moved to anger. |
| marauder | a raider |
| obesity | Excessive fatness. |
| pauper | One without means of support. |
| piler | to crush |
| rift | a narrow fissure in rock |
| semblance | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading |
| surmount | get on top of |
| terminate | terminate the employment of |
| trite | Made commonplace by frequent repetition. |
| usurp | take the place of |
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