Unit 3 Vocab List #3
Terms
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copy deck
- pastiche
- a work of art that mixes styles or copies that of another artist
- placate
- to end war or agitation
- venerable
- worthy of reverance because of age, positon
- patriarch
- a man who runs a family
- degrade
- to lower
- franchise
- privelege, right
- prerogative
- right or privelege
- pensive
- thoughtful
- flaccid
- lacking vigor or energy
- constrain
- to hold back, oblige, confine
- abject
- miserable, low in condition
- haughty
- proud
- impel
- to urge to action through moral pressure, to drive forward
- subordinate
- belonging to a lower class
- chastisement
- to criticize, punish
- ambivalent
- opposing ideas or feelings, such as love and hate
- endow
- to equip with talent or quality, favorable trait, a source of income
- eloquence
- persuasive, powerful expression
- impunity
- without punishment
- sepulcher
- burial vault
- mercantile
- being a merchant, trading
- covenant
- banding agreement
- despotism
- absolute power or authority
- inalienable
- can't be transferred
- remuneration
- to make payment for
- compel
- force, drive, constrain
- hoary
- ancient, white with age