Vocab 2 ELA 1

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Candor

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Honesty, directness, and openness. Freedom from prejudice or bias. Purity of heart; lack of malicious feelings. A lack of equivocation or double talk.

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Cessation

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A stop, pause, interruption, or permanent discontinuation. An end to something; the reaching of a point of conclusion.

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Emanate

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To come from or come out of someone, something, or somewhere. To flow from a specific source.

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Gloaming

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The time of fading light after sunset, just before dark.

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Haughty

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Superior, condescending or arrogant. Rather than using the "B" word, it's more polite to describe someone as haughty.

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Impunity

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Exemption from punishment, penalty, or recrimination.

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Loquacious

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Tending to talk a great deal. Extremely talkative. Someone prone to nervous chatter could be said to be loquacious.

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Mundane

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Commonplace. boring; ordinary or everyday. Relation to or pertaining to concerns of the workaday world.

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Nepotism

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Favoritism shown by someone in power to relatives and friends in professional matters, especially when appointing them to good positions.

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Opulent

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Showing a lavish display of wealth or affluence; extravagant. Abundant in supply.

Oprah is famous for her opulent gifts.