Week 10 Flashcards
To Mason or slender; to weaken our lesson enforce intensity or value
Attenuate
Gentle,kind,forgiving,understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effort
Benign
To find fault in petty way; criticism
Cavil
A pretender, imposter; one who pretends to know knowledge or have ability
Charlatan
To kill or destroy a large part of
Decimate
A weak point, failing, minor flaw
Foible
To do without; abstain from; give up
Forgo
Full of, or loaded with; accompanied by
Fraught
To toughen, harden; to render used by something by long subjection or exposure
Inure
Emitting a reflecting light; glowing; illuminating
Luminous
Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive; often for purely self interested reasons
Obsequious
Blunt; slow or dull and understanding; measuring between 90° and 180°
Obtuse
To swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver
Oscillate
Regretful for one since our mistakes; one who is sorry for wrongdoing
Penitent
Having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate,denial, or refusal; offensively self assured determined
Peremptory
