Vocab Lesson 10 (English) Flashcards by jodie ho | Brainscape

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amiable

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friendly

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antithesis

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the absolute opposite

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assuage

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to ease, pacify

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compensate

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to make appropriate payment for something

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complicit

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being an accomplice in a wrongful act

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covert

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secretly engaged in

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culmination

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the climax toward which something progresses

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dispel

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to drive away, scatter

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disseminate

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to spread widely

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excavate

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to dig out of the ground and remove

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exhort

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to urge, prod, spur

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hypothetical

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supposed or assumed true, but unproven

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inimical

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hostile, enemy like

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irreverence

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disrespect

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puerile

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juvenile, immature

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