English Vocab Week 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 reparation (n) | act or process of making amends; expiation |
| magnate (n) | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction, especially in business or industry |
| precipitate (v) | to throw violently; to bring about especially abruptly |
| insidious (adj) | awaiting a chance to entrap, treacherous; harmful but enticing, seductive; having a gradual and cumulative effect |
| despot (n) | a ruler with absolute power and authority; a person exercising power tyrannically |
| supplant (v) | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery; to take the place of and serve as a substitute for especially by reason of superior excellence or power |
| mitigate (v) | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe or painful |
| verbose (adj) | containing more words than necessary |
| culpable (adj) | guilty, deserving blame or condemnation |
| doggerel (adj) | crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or mocking nature |
| vacillate (v) | to sway through lack of equilibrium; to waver in mind, will, or feeling; to hesitate in choice of opinions or course of actions; fluctuate |
| capitulate (v) | to surrender, often after negotiation of terms; to stop resisting |
| austere (adj) | stern and cold in appearance or manner; morally strict; markedly simple or unadorned |
| burgeoning (adj) | to begin to grow or develop rapidly |
| scapegoat (n) | origin: a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur definition: one that bears the blame for others; one that is the object of irrational hostility |
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