Vocab Week 4-6

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Coerce

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To compel, force

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Inclement

Back 2

Stormy; harsh; severe in attitude or action

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Perpetuate

Back 3

To make permanent or long lasting

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Redress

Back 4

To set right, remedy, relief from wrong or injury

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Punitive

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Inflicting or aiming at punishment

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Flaunt

Back 6

Display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance

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Insufferable

Back 7

Too extreme to bear; intolerable

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Ordinance

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An authoritative order; a decree

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Nonchalant

Back 9

Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest or enthusiasm

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Vitality

Back 10

The capacity to live and develop; power of enduring

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Epitome

Back 11

Summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality

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Infringe

Back 12

To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds

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Ameliorate

Back 13

To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming

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Interloper

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One who moves in and where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder

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Millennium

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A period of one thousand years; a period of great joy

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Fallow

Back 16

Plowed but not seeded; inactive; land left unseeded

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Ascertain

Back 17

To find out

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Malevolent

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Spiteful, showing ill will

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Scrupulous

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Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled

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Froth

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Bubbles formed in or on a liquid; a film of foam sometimes accompanying disease or exhaustion

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Embellish

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To make beautiful with ornamentation; to heighten the attractiveness of by adding fanciful details

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Invigorating

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Having an enlivening or stimulating effect

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Qualm

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A feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety; a disturbing emotion

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Manipulate

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To treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner; to manage or utilize skillfully

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Surmise

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To think or believe without supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess

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Exhort

Back 26

To urge strongly; advise earnestly

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Aplomb

Back 27

Poise, assurance, great self-confidence

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Callow

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Without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers

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Bombastic

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Pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding word intended to conceal a lack of ideas

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Affiliated

Back 30

Associated; connected

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Expunge

Back 31

To erase, obliterate, destroy

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Venial

Back 32

Easily excused; pardonable

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Altruistic

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Unselfish, covered with the welfare of others

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Chivalrous

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Marked by honor, courtesy, and courage; knightly

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Enthrall

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To hold spellbound

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Intensity

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The quality or state of being intense; extreme degree of strength, force, energy, or feeling

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Overture

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An initiative toward agreement or action; something introductory

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Malady

Back 38

A disease or disorder of the animal body; an unwholesome or disordered condition

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Vigilant

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Alertly watchful especially to avoid danger

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Abominate

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To have intense dislike or hatred for

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Adventitious

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Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential

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Commiserate

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To sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress

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Expedite

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To make easy, progress faster

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Expiate

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To make amends, make up for; to avert