Quizlet Manser English quiz 15 word list

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  1. abject: utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
  2. bane: a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
  3. bestial: without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman: bestial treatment of prisoners.
  4. congeal: to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing:
  5. deduction: the act or process of deducting; subtraction.
  6. insatiable: not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased
  7. insipid: without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid:
  8. intoxicating: causing or capable of causing intoxication:
  9. malice: desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness:
  10. palatable: acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory
  11. permeate: to pass into or through every part of:
  12. plagarism: the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
  13. satiate: to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
  14. Standards: something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model
  15. subsist: to exist; continue in existence.
  16. surreptitious: obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine:
  17. vilify: to speak ill of; defame; slander.