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Unit 3. Vocabulary
vocab
Question | Answer |
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extort | to obtain by threat or violence |
avarice | greed for riches |
efface | erase, wipe out |
sublime | inspiring awe or admiration through grandeur or beauty |
ominous | threating |
venerable | worthy of respect |
patriarch | the father and ruler of a family or tribe |
sepulcher | grave; tomb |
appellation | name or title |
iniquity | sin |
waggery | mischievous humor |
obstinacy | stubbornness |
indecorous | improper |
ostentation | boastful display |
conspicuous | obvious; easy to see or perceive |
pensive | thinking deeply or seriously |
suffrage | vote or voting |
posterity | all succeeding generations |
magnanimity | ability to rise above pettiness or meanness |
superfluous | excessive; not necessary |
radiant | shinning brightly |
aversion | object arousing an intense or definite dislike |
chaos | disorder or formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe |