English Vocab Unit 15
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Amenity | that which is pleasant or agreeable |
| Aperture | an opening, gap, hole |
| Dissidence | a difference of opinion |
| Epicurean | devoted to the pursuit of pleasure |
| Improvident | not thrifty |
| Iniquity | wickedness, sin |
| Inviolable | sacred |
| Mutable | open to or capable of change |
| Nascent | just beginning to exist or develop |
| Obeisance | a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission |
| Panegyric | formal or elaborate praise |
| Pillory | a device for publicly punishing offenders |
| Pittance | a woefully meager allowance, wage, or portion |
| Presage | to foreshadow or point to a future event |
| Progeny | descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples |
| Promulgate | to proclaim or issue officially |
| Rectitude | uprightness, righteousness |
| Restive | restless, hard to manage, balky |
| Seraphic | angelic, heavenly, celestial |
| Subsist | to have existence |
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