Vocab midterm
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- endow
- To Provide with a quality, a thing, or a gift of money
- Enclave
- A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory
- Cessation
- A stopping, either final or temporary
- Expedite
- To speed up a process, to facilitate
- Poignant
- Painfully moving, affecting, or touching
- Adjudicate
- To hear and decide judicially, to judge
- Emaciated
- Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment
- Perpetrate
- To commit, as a crime or other antisocial act
- undermine
- To weaken or ruin by degrees
- Gratuitous
- unnecessary
- Diminutive
- Ver small; tiny
- Inexorbale
- Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea. relentless
- Aentennial
- A one-hundredth celebration
- malign
- To say negative and unfair things about; slander
- Gird
- To encircle bind or surround
- Engender
- To bring into being, to produce
- Condone
- Tooverlook or acept without punishment; to pardon or exuse
- Indigenous
- Naturally living or growingin a certain area, native
- Ephemeral
- Lasting a very short time
- Euphemism
- A polite term used to avoid directily naming something considered offensive or unpleasant
- Ameliorate
- To make better; to beocme better; to improve
- Manifesto
- A public ste ment explaining the intentions of a group
- Hierarchy
- A group or system in which positions of power are ranked, lowest to highest
- Inalienable
- Not able to be taken or given away
- Mesmerize
- To fascinate or hypnotize
- Expendable
- Able to be used up and then discareded or replaced
- Extrovert
- A person who attention is focused on others and on what is going on around them
- Affinity
- Attraction for someone or somthing with which one feels a closeness or kindship
- Illusory
- unreal or imagined
- Reparation
- A mending or repair
- Instigate
- To stir up or urge on, to provoke
- Dolefull
- Mournfull or full of sorrow, causing grief
- Bane
- A person or thing that destroys or causes harm
- Ingratiate
- To work to gain the favor of someone
- Garish
- Excessively bright and flashy
- Servitude
- A lack of freedom; forced labor
- Proselytize
- To convert someone to a faith, beliefe, or cause
- Disgruntle
- To put in a bad mood
- Spurious
- Not genuine, false
- Insatiable
- Never satisfied, greedy
- Ambivalent
- Having mixed, often opposing, feleings about somthing or someone indecisive
- Compunction
- A feeling of uneasiness or anxiety caused by guilt
- Rudiment
- A basic principle or skill
- Exacerbate
- To make more svere, bitter, or violent
- Penchant
- A strong attraction or leaning
- Infatuated
- Filled with excessive, shoallow, or foolish love or desire
- Recompense
- To pay or compensate
- Acrimony
- Betterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech, hostility
- Altercation
- A loud and determined dispute; a noisy quarrel
- Countenace
- The expression on a person's face
- Profane
- To treat with scorn or irreverence
- Buffoon
- A person who often makes attempts to be funny, a fool
- Implacabel
- incapable of being placted, soothed, or changed
- Rambunctious
- Behaving in a while or unruly manner
- Luminary
- A source of light, expecially from the sky
- Imbue
- To fill completely with a feeling or idea
- Asperity
- SHarpness or harshness of manner
- Repertoire
- a collection of works that an artist or company can perform
- Heresy
- The expression of shoking or unacceptable views
- Equilibrium
- A state of balance
- Illicit
- Not allowed, improper, or unlawful
- Perverse
- Turned away form what is right; wicked
- Repast
- Food and drink; a meal
- Circumbent
- To avoid through craftiness
- Berate
- To criticize vigorously
- Unremitting
- constant
- Infirmity
- Physical or mental weakness or defect
- Balefull
- Expressing hatred or evil; Harmful