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Vocabulary

Vocabulary. Week of March 5 Study for Quiz. Renounce. give up claim: to give up formally a claim, title, position, or right reject belief: to reject or disavow a belief or theory stop doing something: to give up a habit, pursuit, or practice. Truculent. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal

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Vocabulary

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  1. Vocabulary Week of March 5 Study for Quiz

  2. Renounce • give up claim: to give up formally a claim, title, position, or right • reject belief: to reject or disavow a belief or theory • stop doing something: to give up a habit, pursuit, or practice

  3. Truculent • fierce; cruel; savagely brutal • brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work • aggressively hostile; belligerent

  4. Nefarious • evil: utterly immoral or wicked

  5. Complacency • A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.

  6. Vehemence • Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction • fervid: a vehement denial

  7. Innocuous • unlikely to offend: not intended to cause offense or provoke a strong reaction and unlikely to do so • harmless: harmless in effect

  8. Obsequious • submissive: excessively eager to please or obey • fawning • annoying teacher’s pet

  9. Malevolence • ill will ; malice; hatred

  10. Alacrity • eager readiness

  11. Canonical • relating to, or forming a canon – what a lousy definition • conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure : orthodox • of or relating to a clergyman

  12. Berate • scold: to scold somebody vigorously and at length

  13. Incontrovertible • certain, undeniable, and not open to question

  14. Polarize • cause division of opinion: to make the differences between groups or ideas ever more clear-cut and extreme, hardening the opposition between them, or become ever more clear-cut and extreme in this way

  15. Axioms • a self-evident truth that requires no proof • a universally accepted principle or rule • a proposition that is assumed without proof

  16. Unbridled • freely and openly expressed

  17. Predicated • to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert

  18. Opaque • not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light

  19. Circuitous • lengthy because very indirect

  20. Affable • easygoing: good-natured, friendly, and easy to talk to

  21. Ardent • having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling • Passionate • fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love

  22. Vaunted • boasted about or praised in an ostentatious way

  23. Beguiled • charm somebody: to win and hold somebody's attention, interest, or devotion • deceive somebody: to mislead or deceive somebody • cheat somebody: to rob somebody of something, or cheat somebody out of something

  24. Enervated • weakened or exhausted physically, mentally, or morally

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