English Midterm Vocab

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Guile

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Sly or cunning intelligence; the ability to deceive or trick others.

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Deprivation

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The damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society.

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Dominion

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Sovereignty or control; the exercise of control over a territory or domain.

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Serenity

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The state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.

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Reparation

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The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.

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Loathsome

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Causing hatred or disgust; repulsive.

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Exorbitant

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Unreasonably high; excessive.

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Ignoble

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Not honorable in character or purpose; of low birth or common origin.

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Bequeath

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To leave a personal estate or one's body to a person or other beneficiary by a will.

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Sovereignty

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Supreme power or authority; the authority of a state to govern itself.