vocab unit 11

  1. an inhabitant, resident one who frequents a place
    denizen
  2. likely but not certain to happen possible dependent on uncertain events or confistions, happening by chance. a representative group forming part of a larger body
    contingent
  3. to impose by fraud, to pass off as worthy or genuine, to bring in by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion
    foist
  4. to confirm, make more certain
    corroborate
  5. moderate, sparing, characterized by absitence and self-discipline
    abstemious
  6. to scatter widely
    disseminate
  7. highly colored reddish. excessively ornate, overdecorated, showy
    florid
  8. deserving of blame or correction
    censurable
  9. passing aimlessly form one place or subject to anohter, rabling, roving, nomadic
    discursive
  10. poorly dressed, shabby lacking smartness and good taste
    dowdy
  11. to emphasize place stress on
    accentuate
  12. deceptive, apparently good or valid but lackig real merit
    specious
  13. having sympathetic insight or understanding capable of keen appreciation
    perceptive
  14. to make or become dry ans withered, to char or scorch the surface of, to harden or make unfeeling
    sear
  15. to satisfy completely, to fill to excess. full satisfied
    satiate
  16. awkward lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy
    gauche
  17. capable of being touched or fet, easily seen heard, or recongnized
    palpable
  18. to impress on the mind by repition, tech persistently and earnestly
    inculcate
  19. an opinion different from acccepted belief, the denial of an idea that is genrerally held sacred
    heresy
  20. extremely harmful, deadly, fatal
    pernicious
  21. to shrink bak in fearm kise heart in a difficult ir dangerous situation
    quail
  22. leaping jumping or springing forth, prominent standing out onspicous, a projection or bulge a land form that projects an upward or outward
    salient
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vocab unit 11
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vocab unit 11
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