English Vocab PT1
Terms
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v. to decline in strength or vigor
- alacrity
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adj. cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond
- capitulate
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v. to surrender; to give up or give in
- ingenuous
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adj. frank; without deception; simple
- culpable
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adj. deserving blame; guilty
- insular
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adj. like an island; isolated
- austere
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adj. unadorned; stern; forbidding
- transient
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adj. not staying for a long time; temporary
- acrimonious
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adj. full of spite; bitter; nasty
- acumen
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n. keenness of judgment; mental sharpness
- burgeon
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v. to expand; to flourish
- profligate
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adj. extravagantly wasteful and usually wildly immoral
- impetuous
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adj. impulsive; extremely impatient
- hiatus
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n. a break or interruption, often from work
- incorrigible
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adj. incapable of being reformed
- fauna
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n. animals
- pejorative
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adj. negative; disparaging
- spurious
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adj. false; fake; counterfeit
- adulterate
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v. to contaminate; to make impure
- propensity
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n. a natural inclination or tendency