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Vocabulary week 18
Term | Definition |
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Impassible | Incapable of suffering or experiencing pain; incapable of feeling |
Kleptomania | A persistent neurotic impulse to steal especially without economic motive |
Mordacious | given to biting; caustic; sarcastic |
Peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail |
Pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
Petrify | to make rigid or inert like stone; to confound with fear, amazement, or awe |
Recapitulate | to repeat the principal stages or phrases of |
Recluse | marked by withdrawal with society |
Slake | subside, abate; satisfy, quench |
Zeitgeist | the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era |