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Vocab Unit 4. Beguile – Verb. Charm; deceive by trickery Eve was beguiled by the snake to take the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Depravity - Noun. Extreme corruption; wickedness
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Beguile – Verb • Charm; deceive by trickery • Eve was beguiled by the snake to take the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Depravity - Noun • Extreme corruption; wickedness • War often brings out the most extreme forms of depravity in human beings, such as use of torture.
Fastidious - ADJ • Difficult to please; very careful • The fastidious editor spent an hour considering the placement of a single comma.
Instigate - Verb • Provoke; start; urge • The principal will eventually find out who instigated the fight, so you might as well confess that it was you.
Meander - Verb • Wind or turn in its course • Highway 61 meanders for hundreds of miles through the rolling farmland of Dylan County.
Pithy – ADJ • Concise; meaningful; substantial; meaty • Try putting a pithy quotation from a well-known person in your essay to capture your reader’s interest.