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vocab. ch. 9-11
Question | Answer |
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Tending to excite | Provocative |
Deserving blame | Culpable |
Next to last | Penultimate |
Carefree | Blithe |
Tending to induce sleep | Soporific |
Spreading through | Pervasive |
Harmless | Benign |
Excited/Frantic | Frenetic |
A counteraccusation | Recrimination |
To prove by adding evidence | Corroborate |
Impossible to defend | Untenable |
A thin attractive layer | Veneer |
Emitting light | Luminous |
Indirect | Circuitous |
Indicated but not expressed | Tacit |
Generosity | Largesse |
Depredate | To plunder/ransack |
History of a word | Etymology |
Common people | Demotic |
Ape or monkey | Simian |
Entertainment producer | Impresario |
Required/necessary | Requisite |
Defensive wall | Bulwark |
Gradual increase in the volume of music | Crescendo |
Uncompromising | Intransigent |
Persistent | Dogged |