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1 Vocabulary #8 allay v. to reduce the intensity of; relieve; pacify
ameliorate v. to make better, improve asperity n. roughness or harshness; severity exegesis n. an analysis; interpretation of

2 extradite v. to release an accused criminal to another jurisdiction
hypocrisy n. duplicity, falseness inveigh v to protest, oppose lionize v. to honor or celebrate pander v. to act as a go-between; to exploit weaknesses of others

3 profligate adj. wasteful; immoral
recalcitrant adj. stubbornly resistant unimpeachable adj. beyond doubt; unquestionable unwieldly adj. not easily held vitiate v. to reduce the value of; to corrupt or debase

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