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Unit 3, Part 1: A Growing Nation Vocabulary
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| A | B |
| termagent | a quarrelsome woman |
| usurer | a moneylender who charges high interest |
| extort | to obtain by threat or violence |
| ostentation | boastful display |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| eloquence | persuasive power |
| sepulcher | grave; tomb |
| venerable | worthy of respect or reverance |
| melancholy | gloomy |
| importunate | insistent |
| munificent | generous |
| equivocal | having more than one possible interpretation |
| appellation | name or title |
| paradoxical | expressing an apparent contradiction |
| specious | seeming to be good or sound without actually being so |
| anomalous | abnormal |
| sentience | capacity of feeling |
| obeisance | gesture of respect |
| beguiling | charming |
| countenance | facial expression |
| craven | cowardly |
| ominous | threatening; sinister |
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