Unit 12 Vocabulary Words
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- lithe
- bending easily, limber
- laborious
- not easy, requiring hard work; hardworking
- venomous
- poisonous; spiteful, mean
- brawny
- stron, muscular
- ponder
- to consider carefully, reflect on
- autocratic
- absolute in power or authority
- contend
- to fight, struggle; to compete; to argue
- intolerable
- unbearable
- maltreat
- to abuse, use roughly or crudely
- blasphemy
- an act, utterance, or writing showing contempt for something sacred
- illustrious
- very famous, distinguished
- wily
- sly, shrewd, cunning
- concerted
- planned or performed in cooperation with others
- synthetic
- made or put together by people; something artificial
- temperate
- mild, moderate
- blanch
- to remove the color from; to make a turn pale; to bleach
- appreciable
- sufficient to be noticed or measured
- subversive
- intended to undermine or overthow; one who advocates or attempts to undermine a political system
- humane
- kind, merciful
- irreverent
- disrespectful