vocab cocab
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- Egalitarianism
- Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social and civil rights for all people.
- Prescience
- Knowledge of actions or events before the occur, foresight
- Unilateral
- Performed or undertaken by only one side
- Beneficent
- Characterized by performing acts of kindness or charity
- Svelte
- Slender or graceful in figure or outline;slim
- Incarnation
- A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being
- Peremptory
- Putting an end to all debate or action
- Valorous
- Marked by or possessing great personal bravery; valiant
- Eclat
- Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement
- Garrulous
- Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative
- hubris
- overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance
- assuage
- to pacify or calm
- implacable
- impossible to appease
- rancor
- bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will
- Maelstrom
- A violent or turbulent situation
- supplication
- To ask for humbly or ernestly
- Preposterous
- Contrary to nature, reason or common sense; absurd
- indict
- to accuse of wrongdoing;charge
- jeremiads
- Literary works or speeches expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.
- Perspicacious
- Having or showing penetrating metnal discernment;clear-sighted
- Pundits
- Used as a title of repect for a learned man in India
- Zeitgeist
- The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation
- Craven
- A coward
- Untrammeled
- Not confined or limited
- Restitution
- The act of making good or compensating loss, damage or injury;indemnification
- contentious
- given to contention;quarrelsome
- colloquy
- a conversation, especiall a formal one;a written dialogue