Vocab List

1. Abstracted-lost in thought
2. Adulation-excessive devotion to someone 3. Adversity-fortune or fate 4. Burgeon-to flourish 5. Chimera-a lion headed monster 6. Culpable-deserving blame 7. Decadent-characterized by moral or culture 8. Entreaty-earnest request or petition 9. Fatuous-foolish or inane 10 humane-compassion and sympathy for humans or animals 11. Indulgent-being lenient or permissive 12. Ineptness-below average skill 13. Ingrate-an ungrateful person 14. Inundate-to flood 15. Miser-a very stingy and greedy person 16. Nefarious-extremely villainous or wicked 17. Prattle-to talk in a foolish and simple minded way 18. Predilection-the tendency to think favorably; to be optimistic 19. Procrastinate-to defer action 20. Stoic-pertaining to school 21. Suffrage-the right to vote 22. Summon-to call for the presence of some thing specific 23. Transparent-allowing the passage of light through 24. Turbulence-a violent disorder or commotion 25. Viable-capable of living

Abbreviate
Shorten,abridge
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Abstinence
act of refraing from
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Adulation high praise
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adversity misfortune  aesthetic pertaining to beauty
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amicable agreeable  anachronistic out-of-date
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anecdote short account of event
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anonymous nameless  antagonist opponent
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arid extremely dry
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assiduous hard-working  asylum sanctuary
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benevolent friendly, helpful
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camaraderie trust among friends
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censure to criticize harshly
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circuitous indirect, roundabout
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clairvoyant able to see the future
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collaborate to work together
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compassion sympathy, mercy
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compromise to settle differences
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condescending patronizing  conditional provisional, contingent
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conformist follower of customs
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congregation crowd of people
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convergence joining of parts
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