vocab unit 4 yo
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- aggrandize
- to increase in greatness, power or wealth to build up or make appear greater, intensify
- inscrutable
- impossible to see through physically, incapable of being understood
- archetype
- an original model after which similar things are patterned, a perfect or typical example
- erudite
- scholarly, learned
- infer
- to find out by reasoning, to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought, to hint at
- affable
- courteous and pleasant
- amorphous
- shapeless, without definite form
- gossamer
- thin light delicate
- aura
- a distinctive air or personal quality
- insular
- relating to, characteristic of
- sleazy
- thin or flimzy cheap or shoddy
- irrevocable
- incapable of being changed or called back
- sedulous
- persistent showing industry and determination
- remonstrate
- to argue and plead with someone against something
- retrenched
- to cut down reduce in scope and cost
- resilient
- able to return to an original shape or form
- reverberate
- to re-echo resound, to reflect or be reflected
- querulous
- peevish, complaining fretful
- repudiate
- to disown or reject
- propensity
- a natural inclination or bent toward
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive, vulgar or low