Vocab lesson 17
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- insolence
- quality or instance of being disrespectful and insulting; impudence
- purge
- to remove undesirable elements from; to rid; to remove by cleansing; the removal of members by a higher authority
- flagrant
- obviously bad; notorious; outrageous
- prone
- having a tendency, inclined; lying flat, face down
- diversion
- a turning aside, as of traffic or attention; a game or pastime; a recreation
- evade
- to escape or avoid something, especially by using deceit or cleverness; to avoid doing or answering something directly
- annihilate
- to destroy completely; to vanquish; to make ineffectual or unimportant; to kill
- moderation
- state of being restrained, avoidance of excesses; presiding over, as a meeting; mediation
- decimate
- to destroy or kill a large part of
- concession
- an act of granting or yielding; something granted or yielded; a privilege, such as the right to use land, granted for a specific purpose