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Unit. 2 Vocabulary.
vocab
Question | Answer |
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arduous | difficult |
avarice | greed |
vigilance | watchfulness |
disposition | management |
foppery | foolishness |
felicity | happiness; bliss |
unalienable | not to be taken away |
usurpations | unlawful seizure of rights or privileges |
perfidy | betrayal of trust |
redress | compensation for a wrong done |
magnanimity | ability to rise above pettiness or meanness |
consanguinity | kinship |
acquiesce | agree without protest |
impious | lacking reverence for God |
infidel | a person who holds no religious belief |
insidious | deceitful; treacherous |
subjugation | the act of conquering |
vigilant | alert to danger |
infallibility | in ability to be wrong; reliability |
despotism | government by absolute rule; tyranny |
salutary | beneficial; promoting a good purpose |
unanimity | complete agreement |
posterity | all succeeding generations |
manifest | evident; obvious; clear |
squander | spend or use wastefully |
fasting | eating very little or nothing |