Quizlet Vocabulary Lessons 1-4

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  1. acquittal: a release from obligation
  2. amiable: friendly
  3. analogy: a comparison
  4. antiquity: ancient times; a thing or people from ancient times
  5. apprehensive: uneasy about the future
  6. assert: to defend one's rights
  7. bayou: a marshy inlet
  8. callous: lacking mercy
  9. comendable: praiseworthy
  10. condescend: to stoop to something you think is low
  11. contemptuous: showing or feeling scorn
  12. electorate: all persons having the right to vote
  13. elite: most powerful group
  14. ethical: pertaining to right and wrong
  15. evolve: to develop gradually
  16. excerpt: a selected passage from a book or article
  17. fortitude: endurance
  18. grimace: distortion of face to show pain
  19. heresy: a different belief
  20. inarticulate: unable to speak understandably
  21. indignant: angered by unfairness
  22. indomitable: unconquerable
  23. ineffectual: unable to bring about desired result
  24. judicious: wise, careful, and discreet
  25. malleable: capable of being shaped by hammering
  26. melodramatic: overly dramatic
  27. mentor: trusted teacher
  28. mystic: mysterious
  29. notoriety: bad fame
  30. paraphrase: to reword the meaning of a text
  31. paternal: fatherly
  32. pauper: a person who is very poor
  33. personification: figure of speech in which an inanimate object posesses humanistic qualities
  34. posthumous: after death
  35. prophetic: something that foretells events
  36. succumb: to die; to give in
  37. verbatim: in exact words
  38. vibrant: energetic; vibrating rapidly
  39. visage: a facial expression; appearance
  40. whimsical: unpredictable; oddly out of the ordinary