11&12 unit 13 vocab words

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Unit 13 Vocab Words

To bring forth as evidence; to use as an example

Adduce

To summarize briefly

Recapitulate

The right to vote

Suffrage*

Artifice*

Clever trickery; deception

To conquer or overcome

Subdue

Keeping one’s thoughts to oneself; withdrawn

Reserved

To say false things in order to harm the reputation of

Traduce

To fill to excess; gorge

Surfeit

To cause something to happen immediately; to

speed up

Precipitate

Causing many deaths on all sides of a conflict

Internecine*

Having the highest power or authority; ruling

Sovereign

To filter through a lens or medium

Refract*

Willing to obey

Subservient

To divide by cutting across

Transect*

To yield; to surrender

Capitulate

Purview*

Range of skills or authority; capability

Servile

Like a slave; too humble

Salutary*

Having a positive or healthy result

Not able to be overcome

Insuperable

Sudden change of intention; impulsiveness

Caprice