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Visual Vocabulary part 2

Units 1-7

Change your mind!NO!

- (Adj.) Incapable of being changed or called back

Irrevocable

To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

Wheedle

• Worthy, deserving recognition and praise

Meritorious

Coalition

(n.) a combination, union, merger for some specific purpose.

DO NOT CROSS FENCE

Transgressv. To go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law

Dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force

Vapid

Cadaverous

(adj.) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse

Simulate

(v.) to make pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs

of.

Grandiose

Excessively grand or ambitious

Soporific(adj.)Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy(noun)Something that induces sleep

To break a law or obligation

Infraction

Anomalous

Of an uncertain nature; out of the ordinary

debase

(v) to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate

Umbrage

• Offense, annoyance, displeasure

--A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Innuendo

Caveat: a warning or caution; admonition

Surreptitious

adj. stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud.

Lurid:Causing shock, horror or revulsion (verb)

Adjective, adverb; by virtue of holding a certain office

Ex Officio

Affable: (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to

Vulnerable: Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected