Pre-Ap Eng : Lesson 3 Vocab
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MakiLikesSushi on October 10, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abstruse | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
| Affable | friendly, courteous, amiable |
| Audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
| Contrite | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant |
| Credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| Depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
| Deprecate | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
| Didactic | instructive, designed to teach |
| Dormant | inactive, sleeping |
| Enigmatic | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
| Erudite | scholarly |
| Exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
| Fuse | to mix or to join (usually by melting) |
| Immutable | unchanging |
| Incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
| Loathe | to detest |
| Mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
| Nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate |
| Pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force |
| Pretentious | making an extravagant outward show, self-important |
| Prologue | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
| Recant | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke |
| Servile | overly submissive |
| Trepidation | fear, trembling, agitation |
| Vilify | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against |
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