vocab level h unit 6
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| abrotive |  failing to acomplish an intended aim or purpose` |
| bruit | to spread news |
| contumelious | insolent or rude in speach or behavior |
| dictum | a short saying |
| ensconces | to settle comfortably and firmly in position |
| iconoclastic | attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or truditional beliefs |
| in medias res | in or in the middle of a plot |
| internecine | mutually destructive |
| maladroit | lacking in skill or dexterity |
| maudlin | excessicely or effusively |
| modulate | to change or vary the intensity or pitch |
| portentous | forshadowing an event to come |
| prescience | knowlage of events or beliefs befor they happen |
| quid pro quo | something given or traided for something |
| salubrious | condicive to health or well being |
| saturnalian | character by riotous or unrestrained behavior |
| touchstone | the means of testing worth or genuineness |
| traumatic | so shocking to the emotion as to cause lasting physolocical dammage |
| vitiate | to weaken debase or corrupt |
| waggish | fond of making jokes |
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