Word Smart Vocabulary 51-75
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 depravity | moral corruption |
| gravity | seriousness |
| banal | unoriginal; ordinary |
| extol | to praise |
| euphony | pleasant sound |
| deride | to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously |
| insipid | dull; banal |
| austere | unadorned; stern; forbidding; without much money |
| expedite | to make faster or easier |
| heresy | an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs |
| novel | new; original |
| philanthropy | love of mankind; donating to charity |
| tentative | experimental; temporary; uncertain |
| deference | submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
| vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver back and forth |
| fervor | passion |
| dispassionate | without passion; objective; neutral |
| pragmatic | practical; down-to-earth; based on experience rather than theory |
| rigorous | strict; harsh; severe |
| solemn | serious; grave |
| alleviate | to lessen; to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable |
| negligence | carelessness |
| conspicuous | standing out; obvious |
| advocate | to speak in favor of; to support |
| ascetic | hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
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