English II Vocabulary 11
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sueaddington on November 1, 2011
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 revert | to fall back into an old condition |
| culpable | deserving blame |
| incoherent | unable to be understood (speech) |
| decriminalize | to do away with legal penalties for |
| inflection | the patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
| reprove | to scold or criticize |
| onerous | unpleasant and burdensome |
| retort | to respond critically or sarcastically |
| diffident | shy; not assertive |
| fidelity | faithfulness; loyalty |
| confide | to trust (another) with information or a secret |
| fallacy | (noun) a misleading or mistaken idea |
| fallacious | (adjective) misleading or deceptive |
| fallible | capable of being mistaken; imperfect |
| credible | (adjective) able to be trusted in or believed |
| credence | (noun) trust or belief |
| credulity | tendency to believe things too quickly or easily |
| incredulous | unable to believe something; amazed |
| dubious | incertain; doubtful |
| indubitable | certain beyond doubt or question |
| redoubtable | worthy of fear or respect; mighty |
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