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A Vocab List 3
Question | Answer |
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acumen | sharpness of insight |
bemuse | to confuse, stupefy; plunge deep into thought |
cognition | mental process by which knowledge is acquired |
deflation | decrease, depreciation |
engender | generate; produce; cause |
forswear | repudiate; forsake; eschew |
importune | to ask repeatedly, beg |
jollity | gaiety; merriment |
mitigate | to soften, or make milder |
pervert | to cause to change in immoral way; to misuse |
repression | act of restraining or holding in |
stasis | motionless state; stand still |