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Week 6 vocab..
Question | Answer |
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Accost | To confront verbally |
Adept | Extremely skilled |
Bane | a burden |
chastise | to criticize severely |
compuntion | distress caused by feeling guilty |
deferential | showing respect for another's authority |
diligent | showing care in doing one's work |
efface | to whip out, rub away |
ephemeral | short-lived |
genial | freindly |
harrowing | greatly distressing |
incorrigible | incapable of correction |
lucid | clear, easily understandable |
nonchalant | having a lack of concern, indifferent |
ornate | excessively decorated |
paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
perplex | to confuse |
quell | to control or diffuse a potentially explosive situation |
rebuke | to scold, criticize |
repulse | to disgust |
staid | sedate, serious, self-restrained |
surmise | to infer with little evidence |
tacit | expressed without words |
tenuous | having little substance or strength |
vigilant | watchful; alert |