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English Vocab 13-15
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Squander
To waste; Spend or use foolishly
Curtail
To cut short or reduce
incentive
Something that moves one to take action or work harder; a motivation.
Disgress
To turn aside or stay, especially from the main topic in speaking or writing
Rigor
Great hardship or difficulty; harchness; severity
Devastate
To upset deeply; overwhelm
Succumb
To give in; stop resisting
indispensable
Necessary
Incorporate
To unite into a single while; combine.
Intermittent
Starting and stopping from time to time; off-and-on
Convert
Secret; hidden
Cyinc
A person who believes the wrost of people's behavior and motives; someone who believes people are motivated only by selfishness
intrinsic
Belonging to a person or thing by its very nature (and thus not dependent on circumstances); built-in
Infamous
Having a very bad reputationl widely known for being vicous, criminal, or deserving of contempt.
benefactor
A person or organization that gives help, especially financial aid
Virile
Manly; masculine
demise
death
Speculate
To come up with ideas or theories about a subject; theorize
Alleviate
To relieve; make easier to endure
revulsion
Great disgust or distaste
Aspire
To strongly desier; to be ambitious (To do something or to get something)
Lucrative
Profitable; well-paying
deficit
A shortage; a lack (in amount)
abstain
To hold oneself back from something; refrain
benevolent
Showing kindness; charitable
agnostic
A person who believes we cannot know wheater or not there is a God
mandatory
Required
Diversion
An amusement or pastime; anything that relaxes or amuses
affiliate
To associate; join
dissent
Disagreement
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English Vocab 13-15
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2011-03-20T03:30:52Z
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