Vocab Lesson 6
Lesson 6 Definitions
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- Levity
- excessive frivolity, flippancy
- Conciliate
- to reconcile, to pacify, to renew a friendship
- Infamous
- having a reputation of the worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad
- Cursory
- superficial, casual, hastily done
- Derision
- scoffing at, mockery, ridicule
- Impetuous
- violent, hasty, rash, impulsive
- Oblivation
- state of being forgotten
- Insolence
- insulting or contemptous behaviour
- Ascendancy
- domination; growing power
- Extricate
- to free, to disentangle
- Perjury
- flase testimony under oath
- Forbearance
- patience, lenience
- Industrious
- skillfully busy
- Atrophy
- to waste away, to wither
- Sycophant
- a self-serving flatterer, a brownnoser
- Enmity
- absolute hatred
- Antiquated
- obsolete, out of fashion, no longer usable
- Clandestine
- secret
- Garrulous
- talkativem rambling
- Vacillatuing
- changing, fluctuating
- Arable
- fit for plowing, tillable
- Paradoxical
- somethuing that appears false por contradictory but is actually correct
- Rancor
- bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity
- Frivolous
- lacking in seriousness or inportance
- Vivid
- bright,distinct and clear