Carlie's Vocab
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- Affinity
- erge; tendency
- Abdicate
- to step down from a position of power or authority
- animosity
- hostilitey
- adamant
- stubborn
- adverse
- unfavorable
- banal
- unoriginal; ordinary
- belabor
- to go over repeatedly
- belligerent
- combative; argumentative
- benevolent
- kind; generous
- blight
- disease in plants
- bureaucracy
- a system of government administration marked by efficency, lots of rules and red tape
- cajole
- to persuade someone to do something they do not want to do
- candor
- truthfulness
- capricious
- unpredictable
- chagrin
- embarrassment; humiliation
- choleric
- easily angered
- circumvent
- to frustrate as if by surrounding
- cognizant
- aware; consious
- colloquial
- informal in language
- concise
- brief
- conductive
- promoting
- connoisseur
- expert particullary in food or art
- corroborate
- support with evidence
- covert
- hidden; secret
- culpable
- able to be blamed or guilty
- debacle
- violent break-down
- decimate
- kill or destroy a large part of
- delineate
- to draw in outline
- delude
- decieve
- derogatory
- offensive or degrading
- dictum
- saying, proverb
- digress
- stray from main subject
- discern
- differentiete
- disseminate
- to spread
- dubious
- uncertain; full of doubt
- ambivalent
- uncertain
- autonomous
- acting independently
- benign
- not harmful
- circumscribe
- draw line around, restrict
- concord
- harmony; agreement
- dearth
- lack-of; scarcity
- defame
- ruin the good name of
- dissipate
- thin out; dissovle; fade away
- enfranchise
- to grant the citizenship of
- exculpate
- free from blame
- eclectic
- drawn from many sources
- egocentric
- selfish
- emulate
- to model by immitating
- enigma
- mystery
- euphemism
- a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one