Vocabulary Lesson 8

💙 6 verbs
🟩 6 adjectives
🔴 3 nouns

💙 pander - to exploit weaknesses of others; to cater to the vices of others
🟩 otiose - useless; fertile^[1]
🟩 puerile - childish; juvenile^[2]
🟩 aleatory - dependent on luck or chance
🔴 renunciation - rejection; refusal to acknowledge
🔴 asperity - roughness; harshness; severity
🟩 unimpeachable - unquestionable; beyond doubt^[3]
💙 inveigh - to disapprove angrily; to protest^[4]
💙 lionize - to assign great social importance to; to treat as a celebrity
💙 allay - to relieve or alleviate
💙 vitiate - to corrupt morally; to contaminate^[5]
🟩 recalcitrant - stubbornly resistant; showing opposition
🔴 exegesis - an explanation of a text; a critical interpretation
💙 ameliorate - to make better; to improve
🟩 profligate - wasteful; immoral

#english #notes/definitions Vocabulary

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1. ant. prolific ↩︎
2. ant. mature ↩︎
3. ant. discreditable ↩︎
4. ant. extol ↩︎
5. ant. ameliorate ↩︎