vocab 12
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- trechant
- incisive, keen, forceful, effective, cutting, caustic, penetrating
- platitude
- a commonplace, stale, cliche,truism, bromide
- tactit
- unspoken, silent, implied, inferred, unvoiced, understood
- irrelevant
- not to the point, not applicable, not pertinent, immaterial, inapplicable
- quell
- to subdue, suppress, pacify, quash, crush
- abjure
- to renounce, retract, abstain from
- acrid
- harsh in taste or odor
- nocturnal
- nighttime
- callous
- emotionally hardened, unfeeling,not sensitive
- compunction
- remorse, regret
- indelible
- not able to be erased or removed, permanent
- tangible
- capable of being touched, real, concrete
- clandestine
- secret, concealed
- indulgent
- leniet, tolerant, liberal, yielding to wishes or demands of others
- inveterate
- firmly established, chronic, persisten
- ruminate
- to mediate, to think about at length, ponder, reflect
- august
- majestic, inspiring
- quiescent
- inactive, at rest
- conflagration
- a large destrictive fire
- elated
- in high spirits, adjective participle