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F-6
vocab
word | definition |
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fetter | a chain or shackle placed on the feet;anything that confines or restrains; to chain or shackle;to render helpless or important |
heinous | very wicked, offensive hateful |
immutable | not a subject to change; constant |
insurgent | one who rebels or rises against authority; rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority, surging or rushing in or out |
megalomania | a delusion marked by a feelings of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality |
sinecure | a position requiring little or no work; an easy job |
surreptitious | steathy, secret, intended to esape observation; made or accomplished by fraud |
transgress | to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law |
transmute | to change from one nature, substance, or form to another; to transform |
vicarious | performed suffered or other wise experience be one person in lace of another |
anomalous | anormal, irregular, departing from the usual |
aspersion | a damaging or derogatry statment; the act of slndering or de faming |
bizarre | extremely strange, unusual, atypical |
brusque | abrupt |
cajole | to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to decieve with soothing thoughts or false promises |
castigate | chastise |
contrive | to plan with ingenuity |
demagogue | a leader who expoits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
disbuse | to free from deceptio or error, set right in ideas or thinking |
ennui | weariness dissatifaction |