Unit 4 Definitions 2
Terms
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- Clemency
- Mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy.
- Contumely
- Insulting or offending contemptuous treatment which tends to inflict dishonor and humiliation upon some one; a humiliating insult.
- Dirge
- A funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning.
- Frugality
- The quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily.
- Hiatus
- A break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause.
- Lapidary
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One who works at Cutting, polishing or engraving gems.
Pertaining to the art of cutting or engraving precious stones. - Mendicant
- A beggar.
- Penury
- Extreme poverty.
- Plagiarism
- The act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as ones own.
- Precursor
- A person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office.
- Sanction
- Authoritative permission for an action.
- Sinecure
- A well-paid position with little or no responsibility.