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Vocabulary

Absolve: to free from guilt or blame or their consequences

Adversary: opponent; enemy

Affable: pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite

Affluent: generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich

Alleviated: made easier to endure; lessened

Ambled: to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter.

Anonymity: the state or quality of being anonymous

Apprehensively: showing unease or fearfulness about something that might happen

Aptness: inclined; disposed; given; prone

Arduous: requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult

Ambivalent: uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

Arid: being without moisture; extremely dry; parched

Array: to place in proper or desired order

Atone: to make amends, as for a sin or fault

Atrophied: wasted; withered; shriveled

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Ascertain: To find definitely; learn with certainty or assurance

Austere: severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding

Averting: to turn away or aside

Benevolence: an inclination to perform kind, charitable acts

Bludgeoned: hit or overcome

Chagrin: a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation

Chasm: a pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty

Conjure: to call or bring into existence by or as if by magic

Contemptuous: showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful

Coy: affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

Daunting: to overwhelm or intimidate

Demise: pass by descent

Dismay: cause to lose courage or resolution

Divert: turn aside; deviate

Eccentric: deviating from an established or usual pattern style

Embodiment: one that embodies something

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Empathy: understanding of anothers situation, feelings, and motives

Epiphany: a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something

Erroneous: containing or characterized by error; mistaken

Exasperated: made very angry or impatient; annoyed greatly

Exploitation: an act or instance of exploiting

Exuded: to cause ooze or spread out in all directions

Facade: an artificial or deceptive from

Feigned: not genuine or real;

Furtive: done by stealth

Futility: characterized by having no useful result; uselessness

Garrulous: given to prosy rambling or tedious; pointlessly or annoyingly

Grimace: a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain

Guileless: innocent, nave

Haphazardly: in a random manner; without care

Imminent: ready to take place

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Impassive: giving no sign of feeling or emotion

Impunity: exemption or freedom from punishment, harm or loss

Incessant: continuing or following without interruption; unceasing

Indignation: anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean

Queries: a question

Queue: a braid of hair worn hanging down behind

Redemption: an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed

Relinquishment: to renounce or surrender

Remorse: deep and painful regret for wrongdoing

Reticence: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved

Reveries: a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing

Rotund: round in shape

Rueful: causing sorrow or pity

Sheen: luster; brightness; radiance

Shrewd: astute or sharp in practical matters

Squalid: foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy

Surly: churlishly rude or bad-tempered

Surreal: having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream

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Teeming: abounding or swarming with something

Tenet: any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc.

Terse: abruptly concise; curt; brusque

Trepidation: tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation

Unabashedly: without shame or embarrassment

Unrequited: not return or reciprocated

Unscrupulous: unrestrained by scruples

Unwitting: not knowing; unaware; ignorant; oblivious; unconscious

Valiant: boldly courageous; brave ; stout-hearted

Vigil: wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours of sleeping