Quizlet Mr. Ross - Womens Lit Vocab test

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  1. acquiesced: accepted; complied with
  2. acrimoniously: ill-naturedly
  3. altruism: the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
  4. amalgamated: caused to combine or unite
  5. ambiguity: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
  6. amicably: nicely or gently
  7. asunder: into parts or pieces
  8. conjecture: to guess, to deduce, infer
  9. contrive: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort
  10. discernment: the trait of judging wisely and objectively
  11. effaced: erased
  12. ephemeral: enduring a very short time
  13. epicurean: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
  14. espouse: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  15. extraneous: not essential
  16. fortuitous: occurring by happy chance
  17. incipient: beginning to exist
  18. incumbent: imposed as a duty; obligatory
  19. indolent: lazy
  20. innocuous: harmless
  21. malleable: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  22. obsequious: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  23. ostensibly: from appearances alone
  24. providential: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate
  25. subversive: in opposition to a civil authority or government
  26. superfluous: more than is needed, desired, or required
  27. surmise: infer from incomplete evidence
  28. vacillation: changing location by moving back and forth
  29. vacuous: empty
  30. vicarious: felt or experienced second-hand