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Vocab Unit 15
Max Eissele
Period 7-8
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Vocab unit 15
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Didactic
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Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
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Fulminate
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To thunder forth menaces
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Jeremiad
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A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophesy of doom
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Disingenuous
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Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
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Fustian
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Pretentious speech or writing; pompous language
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Beguile
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To take away from by or as if by cunning; cheat
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Curmudgeon
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An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions
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Faux pas
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A social blunder
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Ascetic
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One who practices extreme self-denial; also, austere, severe
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Opportunist
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One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends
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Inhibit
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To hold back or in
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Bauble
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A trinket
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Contumacious
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Obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
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Exculpate
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To clear of guilt or blame
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