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Ch 19 Flashcards

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Apogee (n)

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Farthest or highest point; culmination

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Connoisseur (n)

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On informed and astute judge in matter of taste; expert

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Disabuse (v)

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To undeceive, to set right

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Errant (adj)

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Traveling, itinerant, peripatetic

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Fulminate (v)

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To attack loudly or denounce

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Inimical (adj)

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Damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly

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Philistine (n)

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A crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values

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Rescind (v)

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Ti invalidate, repeal, retract

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Sophistry (n)

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Plausible but faulty logic ; fallacious reasoning

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Travesty (n)

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Mockery, caricature, parody

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Apostate (n)

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One who abandons long held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause

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Consequential (adj)

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Pompouse, self-important

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Convention (n)

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Generally agreed upon practice or attitude

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Dissemble (v)

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To disguise or conceal; to mislead

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Estimable (adj)

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Worthy, formidable

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Insensible (adj)

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Unconscious, unresponsive, unaware, numb

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Pine (v)

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To yearn intensely, to lose vigor

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Risible (adj)

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Hilarious, provoking laughter

• risible sight lol

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Specious (adj)

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Seeming true, but actually false,

Misleadingly attractive

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Turpitude (n)

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Depravity, wickedness

• moral turpitude

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