Read chapters 3 and 4 for Friday.
Vocab quiz next Wednesday.
- Abstruse (adj): difficult to understand
- Accrue (v): to arise or increase as a natural result or growth, usually used with to or from
- Acquiesce (v): to accept as inevitable; to comply passively
- Besmirch (v): to stain or tarnish; to make dirty
- Explicit (adj): fully and clearly expressed, leaving nothing merely implied
- Histrionic (adj): purposely affected; theatrical
- Impropriety (n): something that is improper
- Inveigle (v): to lure or trick into doing something
- Penitent (adj): sorry for having done wrong
- Probity (n): honesty; trustworthiness; adherence to virtue
- Purport (v): to give or present the often false impression of being someone or intending something
- Repercussion (n): an unforeseen or indirect result of an event
- Revelation (n): something that is made known or revealed, often coming as a surprise
- Surfeit (n): an overabundant supply; an excess
- Unsavory (adj): having an unpleasant look, taste or smell