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Vocabulary 4A
Odious-pertinent
Term | Definition |
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Odious | Hateful |
Ominous | Threatening |
Onerous | Burdensome or oppressive |
Onus | A burden or responsibility |
Ostracism | Exclusion from society |
Pacifism | Belief in peace; nonaggression |
Panacea | A cure-all |
Paragon | A model of excellence |
Pariah | A social outcast |
Partisan | Showing partiality to a party or one side of an issue |
Passivity | Inactiveness; nonparticipation |
Pathos | The quality that arouses emotion or sympathy |
Peculiar | Odd; unique |
Pejorative | Expressing disapproval |
Perfunctory | Just going through the motions; mechanical |
Peripheral | Tangential; unimportant; minor |
Perjury | Lying under oath |
Permeate | To pervade |
Pernicious | Harmful; poisonous |
Pertinent | Relevant |