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FINAL VOCABULARY REVIEW!!!
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| apex | highest point |
| exorbitant | excessive |
| inundate | to overwhelm |
| malign | evil/ to commit evil |
| meander | to wander |
| shoddy | cheap (stuff) |
| surly | rude |
| momentous | memorable |
| pensive | deep in thought |
| vagrant | wanderer |
| console | to calm down, to confort |
| flippant | disrespectful |
| immunity | unable to get (esp. a disease) |
| liability | debt |
| pugnacious | agressive |
| rabid | vicious |
| remunerate | to reward |
| sparse | rare |
| rejuvenate | to revive |
| assimilate | absorb into, mix in |
| apportion | to divide |
| concede | to submit/yield |
| congenial | friendly; agreeable |
| lofty | high status, noble |
| migration | mass movement |
| prelude | introduction |
| rancid | spoiled; gone bad |
| rustic | simple, country-like |
| sordid | run down, very poor or mean |
| versatile | multitalented |
| wane | to decrease gradually in size, shape, or power |
| vindicate | calm, mild |
| subversive | intended to overthrow |
| venomous | poisonous, mean |
| laborious | hard working |
| irreverent | disrespectful |
| contend | to oppose |
| intolerable | unbearable |
| conciliatory | peace-making |
| derisive | disrespectful |
| verbatim | exact |
| didactic | morally instructive |
| grumption | energy, boldness |
| deprecating | expressing disapproval |
| repudiates | to refuse to accept |
| bilios | bad tempered |
| prodigal | wasteful |
| incarnate | personified |
| impetuous | impulsive |
| petulance | irritation, ill-humor, or impatience |
| brusquely | abruptly |
| peremptorily | commandingly |
| stolidly | showing no emotion |
| incensed | filled with rage |
| unabashed | not embarassed |
| slovenly | untidy and dirty |
| modulation | to change something |
| deferentially | courteously |
| cleave | to tear or cut |
| cornerstone | an indespensable and fundamental basis |
| debacle | a sudden downfall or defeat |
| embruoil | to involve in an argument |
| exonerate | to free from a responsibility, obligation, or task |
| glib | showing little concern |
| influx | massive inflow of something |
| precipitous | extremely cheap |
| threadbare | wearing old |
| knave | sly and untrustworthy |
| dormant | sleeping; inactive |
| boorish | rude and clumsy |
| dubious | undecided |
| avert | to turn away |
| protract | prolong or lengthen |
| spurn | refusing with disdain; scorn |
| abase | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem |
| probe | and exploatory device or action |
| commence | to begin |
| rancor | bitterness |
| vanquish | to defeat |
| impediments | obstacle |
| interim | an interval between two events |
| pristine | clear or new |
| confound | to become confused |
| avaricious | greedy |
| dishearten | to dispirit or discourage |
| pernicious | harmful |
| purveyor | supplier of good news |
| brandish | to wave threateningly |
| rebuke | to criticize |
| transpose | to change positions |
| palpable | seeming as it can be touched or felt |
| countenance | to condone |
| morose | gloomy |
| reprimand | parish |
| lucid | clear; easy to understand |
| doleful | dreary |
| tenacious | persistant |
| paramount | very important |
| servitude | slavery |
| incessant | continual |
| intricate | complicated |
| superfluous | over the top; excelling the requirements |
| rebut | to argue |
| atone | to make up for |
| prim | proper |
| diligent | hard-working |
| succumb | to give in |
| credible | truthful, believeable |
| hamper | to hold back |
| sardonic | bitterly sarcastic |
| advent | beginning of something |
| wily | sly |
| temperate | calm, mild |
| devitalize | to diminish or destroy |
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