Vocabulary - Unit 2 Definitions
Terms
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- Egregious
- Outstandingly bad
- Emanate
- To flow forth or originate from a source
- Emolument
- Profit or gain arising from employment or position
- Exigency
- A state of urgency; a situation calling for immediate action
- Expedient
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1. Necessary or suitable under the circumstances
2. Based on what is to one's advantage, rather than on what is right - Extirpate
- To root out or destroy completely; to exterminate, eradicate
- Imbibe
- To drink; to absorb or take in with the senses as if by drinking
- Incarcerate
- To imprison
- Intrepid
- Fearless
- Inundate
- To cover with water; to overwhelm as if with a flood
- Invective
- A violent verbal attack
- Inveterate
- Firmly established over a long period; settled in a habit