Vocab For March 9

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Incognito

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Adjective

Having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, especially to avoid notice or formal attentions

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Incontrovertible

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Adjective

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

"incontrovertible proof of the defendent's innocence"

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Inculcate

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Verb

To impress upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repitition

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Infrastructure

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Noun

An underlying base or foundation, especially for a system or organization

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Paradigm

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Noun

Something that serves as a pattern or model

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Precipituous

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Adjective

Very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging in rise or fall

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Recapitulate

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Verb

To review by a brief summary, as at the end of a discussion; summarize

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Reparation

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Noun

The making of amends for injury done

"The reparation for an injustice"

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Soliloquy

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Noun

The act of talking to oneself; in literature, when the character is onstage talking to himself without a listener but the audience can hear

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Tempestuous

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Adjective

Characterized by violent emotions or behavior

"A stormy argument"
"A stormy marriage"

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Totalitarian

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Adjective

Dictorial; Of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictorial control over many aspects of life

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Unctuous

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Adjective

Characterized by excessive piousness or mortalic fervor (Parris, Danforth)

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Usurp

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Verb

To seize and hold a position, office, power, etc by force or without legal right

"The pretender tried to usurp the throne"

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Vacuous

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Adjective

Expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intellegence

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Vehement

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Adjective

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid

"A vehement denial"

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Vortex

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Noun

A place where life is sucked out of something

"Abigail was the vortex of Proctor's downfall"

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Yeoman

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Noun

A person who farms or cultivates a small piece of land (during the Renaissance); a person attending or assisting another

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Xenophobe

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Noun

A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc