O'Brien Vocab-Ch.3
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- perpetuate
- to make permanent or long lasting
- craven
- cowardly, a coward
- urbane
- refined in manner or style, suave
- demise
- a death, an end to someone's life
- inclement
- stormy, harsh
- adversary
- an enemy, an opponent
- coerce
- to compel, force
- negligible
- unimportant, able to be disregarded
- exhilarate
- to enliven, cheer
- fallow
- plowed by not seeded, a land left unseeded
- alienate
- to turn away, to transfer
- artifice
- a skillful device, a clever trick
- culinary
- related to cooking, of the kitchen
- delete
- to erase, wipe out
- muse
- to think about in a dreamy way, to ponder
- precedent
- an example, something that can serve as a baisis
- sojourn
- a temporary stay, to stay for a time
- redress
- to set right, a remedy
- harass
- to disturb, to worry
- punitive
- inflicting, aiming at punishment