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LTF #3
3rd 6 weeks PreAp Vocab List
Question | Definition |
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ABSTRUSE | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
AFFABLE | friendly, courteous, amiable |
AUDACITY | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
CONTRITE | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant |
CREDULOUS | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
DEPRAVITY | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
DEPRECATE | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
DIDACTIC | instructive, designed to teach |
DORMANT | inactive, sleeping |
ENIGMATIC | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
ERUDITE | scholarly |
EXOTIC | foreign, unfamiliar |
FUSE | to mix or join (usually by melting) |
IMMUTABLE | unchanging |
INCORRIGIBLE | incapable of being reformed or improved |
LOATHE | to detest |
MITIGATE | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
NULLIFY | to cause not to be in effect; to negate |
PACIFISTIC | opposed to war ro use of force |
PRETENTIOUS | making an extravagant outward show, self-important |
PROLOGUE | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
RECANT | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke |
SERVILE | overly submissive |
TREPIDATION | fear, trembling, agitation |
VILIFY | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against |