Lesson 3 Vocabulary

difficult to understand, concealed

• abstruse
• affable
• audacity
• contrite

friendly, courteous, amiable

• affable
• audacity
• contrite
• credulous

excessive boldness, rashness, daring

• audacity
• contrite
• credulous
• depravity

extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

• contrite
• credulous
• depravity
• deprecate

believing on slight evidence, gullible

• credulous
• depravity
• deprecate
• didactic

moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

• depravity
• deprecate
• didactic
• dormant

to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval

• deprecate
• didactic
• dormant
• enigmatic

instructive, designed to teach

• didactic
• dormant
• enigmatic
• erudite

inactive, sleeping

• dormant
• enigmatic
• erudite
• exotic

mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling

• enigmatic
• erudite
• exotic
• fuse