vocab unit 6

  1. adrupt, blunt, with no formalitites
    brusque
  2. a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
    demagogue
  3. to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice, to deveive with soothing, thouights or flase promises
    cajole
  4. wearniess and discontent from lack of occupation or interest boredom
    ennui
  5. abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
    anomalous
  6. to plan with ingenuity, invent to bring about as the result of a scheme or plan
    contrive
  7. to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
    diabuse
  8. one, having power to decide a matter at issue a judge umpire
    arbiter
  9. extremely strange, unusual, atypical
    bizarre
  10. to punish severely, criticize severely
    castigate
  11. a damaging or derogatory statement, the act of slandering or defaming
    aspersian
  12. to give or firnish condescendingly to grant
    vouchsafe
  13. a delusion marked by a feeling of power wealth, talent, far in excess of relaity
    megalomania
  14. stralthy, secret, intended to escape observation made or accomplished by fraud
    surreptitious
  15. to change from one nature, suvstance, or form to another, to transform
    transmate
  16. not subject to change, constant
    immutable
  17. to go beyond a limit or boundary, to sin, violate a loaw
    transgress
  18. very wicked, offensive, hateful
    heinous
  19. one who rebels or rises against authority. rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority, surging or rushing in or on
    insurgent
  20. a chain or shackle placed on the feet, anything that congines or restrains to chain or shackle to render helpless or impotent
    fetter
  21. a position requiring little or no work, an easy job
    sinecure
  22. performed, suffered, or otherwise, experineced by one person in place of another
    vicarious
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vocab unit 6
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vocab unit 6
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