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Exploring Complex Vocabulary: Understanding Key Terms and Their Meanings

Dive into a carefully curated list of essential vocabulary terms that enhance communication and comprehension. This unit covers diverse words including "abate," "adulation," "anathema," and more. Each term is accompanied by its part of speech, meaning, and usage, offering valuable insights into their contexts. Perfect for students and language enthusiasts, this guide serves as a resource to not only enrich your vocabulary but also to engage in thoughtful discussion and analysis. Explore terminology that spans various shades of meaning and application.

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Exploring Complex Vocabulary: Understanding Key Terms and Their Meanings

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  1. Andrew Ms. Hemphill 4th

  2. Unit 9

  3. Abate • Abate: (v) To make less in amount, degree, etc.; To subside, become less; nullify; to deduct, omit.

  4. Adulation • Adulation: (n) Praise or flattery that is excessive.

  5. Anathema Anathema: (n) An object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often used adjectivally without the article)

  6. Astute • Astute: (adj.) Shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom.

  7. avarice • Avarice: (n) a greedy desire, practical wisdom

  8. Culpable • Culpable: (adj.) deserving blame, worthy, of condemnation.

  9. Dilatory • Dilatory: (adj.) Tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone.

  10. Egregious • Egregious: (adj.) conspicuous. Standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense)

  11. Equivocate • Equivocate: (v) To speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous.

  12. Evanescent • Evanescent: (adj.) Vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy.

  13. Irresolute • Irresolute: (adj.) unable to make up ones mind, hesitating. OR

  14. Nebulous • Nebulous: (adj.) Cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct

  15. Novice • Novice: (n) One who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience (also used adjectivally)

  16. penury • Penury: (n) Extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency

  17. PREtentious • Pretentious: (adj.) Done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably; making demands on one’s skill or abilities, ambitious

  18. Recapitulate • Recapitulate: (V) to review a series of facts; to sum up

  19. Recapitulate • Recapitulate: (v) To revive, bring back to consciousness or existence

  20. Slovenly • Slovenly: (adj.) untidy, dirty, careless

  21. supposition • Supposition: (n) something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

  22. Torpid • Torpid: (adj.) inactive, sluggish, dull

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