VOCAB QUIZ 20
Terms
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- abound
- be abundant or plentiful
- adherent
- someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
- adulation
- servile flattery
- affinity
- a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
- celibacy
- abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
- circumvent
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- coercion
- the act of compelling by force of authority
- complement
- something added to complete or make perfect
- condescend
- treat condescendingly
- desist
- choose no to consume
- disconcerting
- causing an emotional disturbance
- discordant
- not in agreement or harmony
- dissident
- a person who dissents from some established policy
- dissipate
- move away from each other
- emanate
- give out (breath or an odor)
- entity
- that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
- entreat
- ask for or request earnestly
- fester
- ripen and generate pus
- foray
- an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
- frugal
- avoiding waste
- fulsome
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
- gamut
- a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"
- implacable
- impossible to placate
- incorrigible
- Not able to be corrected; beyond control
- extort
- obtain by coercion or intimidation