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Vocab List 3
Vocabulary List 3
Question | Answer |
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Adversary | an enemy, opponent |
Alienate | to turn away, to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey |
Artifice | a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery |
Coerce | to compel, force |
Craven | cowardly; (n) a coward |
Culinary | of or related to cooking or the kitchen |
Delete | to erase, wipe out, cut out |
Demise | a death, especially of a person in a loft position |
Exhilarate | to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to |
Fallow | plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; (n) land left unseeded; (v) to plow but not seed |
Harass | to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks |
Inclement | stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
Muse | to think about in a dreamy way, ponder |
Negligible | so unimportant that if can be disregarded |
Perpetuate | to make permanent or long lasting |
Precedent | an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action |
Punitive | inflicting or aiming at punishment |
Redress | to set right, remedy (n) relief from wrong or injury |
Sojourn | a temporary stay; (v) to stay for a time |
Urbane | refined in a manner or style, suave |