Vocab lesson #3
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- beguile
- to cheat or decieve; to mislead
- Antiquity
- ancient times; a thing or people of ancient time; the quality of being ancient
- bedlam
- an up roar or confusion
- besiege
- to surround in order to capture; to crowd around in order or press with requests; to harass; to beset
- ascertain
- to find out; to determine; to learn through research
- aptitude
- a talent; natural ability; the ability to learn; suitability
- apprehensive
- afraid; anxious; worried that some misfortune may occur
- balmy
- mild and pleasant; soothing
- anthropology
- the study of the physical, cultural, and social development and behavior of humanity
- autonomy
- the condition of having self-government; independce
- atrocious
- wicked or cruel; exceedingly bad;
- archaic
- no longer in use, old fashioned
- bayou
- a marshy inlet or the outlet of a river or lake in parts of southern united states
- appease
- to soothe or pacify; to satisfy; especially by giving in to demands
- annihilate
- to destory in large part or completly; to vanguish, to make ineffectual
- apex
- the highest point of something; vertex; the culmination or point of climax
- axiom
- a statement assumed to be true; a self-evident truth; an established principle
- arbiter
- a person chosen to decide in dispute, a judge
- assert
- to express or declare firmly; to defend or claim.
- astute
- shrewed, showing keen judgement, crafty