Unit 15_Orange Book - Sadlier Oxford Level G

John S. (United States of America)
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  1. affectation
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  2. amenity
    something that provides value, pleasure, or convenience
  3. aperture
    a natural opening in something
  4. dissidence
    disagreement, especially with the government
  5. epicurean
    devoted to pleasure
  6. improvident
    not supplying something useful for the future
  7. iniquity
    absence of moral or spiritual values
  8. inviolable
    incapable of being transgressed or dishonored
  9. mutable
    capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
  10. nascent
    being born or beginning
  11. obeisance
    bending the head or body in reverence or submission
  12. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  13. pillory
    a wooden instrument of punishment on a post
  14. pittance
    an inadequate payment
  15. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  16. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  17. promulgate
    state or announce
  18. recrimination
    mutual accusations
  19. rectitude
    righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
  20. restive
    in a very tense state
  21. seraphic
    having a sweet nature befitting an angel
  22. subsist
    support oneself
Created on Wed Feb 27 13:53:24 EST 2013 (updated Wed Feb 27 13:53:31 EST 2013)

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