Vocab List 12
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- Asylum
- A place of retreat or security; refuge; haven
- Auspicious
- Favorable; promising; fortunate; positive
- Benevolent
- Well-meaning; generous; compassionate; munificent
- Benign
- Kind and gentle; benevolent; compassionate
- Mollify
- to calm or soothe; pacify; appease
- Reclamation
- The act of making something useful again; renovation; recuperation
- Sanction
- to give official authorization or approval; permit
- Dubious
- Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity; questionable
- Fabricated
- Made; concocted to deceive; fictitious; invented
- Hypocrisy
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The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity; duplicity; double standards
- Slander
- False charges and malicious oral statements about someone; defamation; calumny
- Spurious
- Not genuine; phony; fake
- Astute
- Shrewd; clever; perceptive; wise
- Clandestine
- Secretive; covert; furtive
- Coup
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A brilliantly executed plan; coup d’etat; overthrow