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Vocabtest unit 3
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Term | Definition |
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Adversary | an opponent an enemy |
Alienate | to cause to turn away |
Artifice | trickery |
Coerce | to force |
Craven | a coward characterized by shamless fear, cowardly |
Culinary | of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen |
Delete | to remove by striking out or canceling |
Demise | a death |
Exhilarate | to fill with high or cheerful spirits |
Fallow | land that has been plowed but not yet seeded, to plow land but not seed it plowed and left unseeded, regarding and, uncultivated |
Harass | to trouble with importunes. |
Inclement | stormy showing no mercy |
muse | to be absorbed in ones thoughts ponder ruminate |
Negligible | not significant or important enough to be worth considering trifling |
Perpetuate | to preserve from extinction or oblivion |
Precedent | an instance that may serve as guide or basis for a rule |
Punitive | Pertaining to punishment |
Redress | to set right |
Sojourn | a temporary stay a brief period or residence to stay for a time in place to live temporarily |
Urbane | polite refined and often elegant in manner |