Vocabulary 4-3
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- fatuous
- complacently stupid
- burnish
- to polish, rub to a shine
- repudiate
- disown, disavow, reject as untrue
- denigrate
- blacken, belittle, defame
- maverick
- rebel, nonconformist
- effluvia
- outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor
- alacrity
- cheerful promptness
- salubrious
- healthful
- paradigm
- a model, example, or pattern
- apotheosis
- deification, glorification to godliness
- officious
- meddlesome, pushy in one\'s services
- cogent
- convincing
- spurious
- false, counterfeit
- mollify
- to soothe
- peregrination
- traveling about; wandering
- acarpous
- no longer fertile; worn out
- bedizen
- to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy way
- alloy
- to debase by mixing something inferior
- fecund
- fertile
- doggerel
- trivial, poorly constructed verse
- peripatetic
- walking
- mendicant
- a beggar
- propitiatory
- conciliatory, appeasing
- pedantic
- bookish, showing off learning
- nadir
- bottom, the lowest point
- broach
- bring up, begin to talk about
- ramify
- to be divided or subdivided; to branch out
- exculpate
- to clear from the charge of guilt
- ineluctable
- certain, inevitable
- episodic
- loosely connected, not flowing locgically