Unit 3 Vocab
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- Culinary
- of or related to cooking or the kitchen
- Alienate
- to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey. Synonyms: separate, drive apart, estrange
- Sojourn
- (n.) a temporary stay. (v.) to stay for time. Synonyms: visit, stopover, brief stay
- Urbane
- refined in manner or style, suave. Synonyms: elegant
- Harass
- to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks. Synonyms: annoy, pester, bedevil, beleaguer
- Artiface
- a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery. Synonyms: ruse, stratagem, contrivance
- Craven
- (adj.) cowardly; (n.) a coward. Synonyms: fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous
- Redress
- (v.) to set right, remedy. (n.) relief from wrong or injury. Synonyms: recitfy, correct, mitigrate
- Perpetuate
- to make permanent or long lasting. Synonyms: continue, preserve, prolong indefinatly.
- Negligible
- so unimportant that it can be disregarded. Synonyms: trivial, inconsequential, insignificant
- Fallow
- (adj.) plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow. (n.) land left unseeded. (v.) to plow but not seed. Synonyms: unproductive, inert, dormant
- Coerce
- to compel; force. Synonyms: pressure, bully, intimidate, constrain
- Demise
- a death, esp. of a person in a lofty position. Synonyms: decease, passing away
- Muse
- to think about in a dreamy way, ponder. Synonyms: meditate, contemplate, daydream
- Exhilarate
- to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness. Synonyms: stimulate, excite, gladden
- Inclement
- stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action. Synonyms: blustery, tempestuous, implaceable
- Adversary
- an enemy, opponent. Synonyms: antagonist, rival, foe
- Punitive
- inflicting or aiming at punishment. Synonyms: penelizing, relatiatory
- Delete
- to erase; wipe out, cut out. Synonyms: remove, cancel, expunge
- Precedent
- an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action. Synonyms: guide, tradition, model