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VOCAB List 21: negligence – carelessness ironic – satiric; unexpected dogmatic – arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas; disparate – different; incompatible expedient – providing an immediate advantage; serving one’s immediate self interests mitigate – to lessen the severity of something acclaim – praise; applause; admiration

VOCAB list 22: reproach – to scold orthodox – conventional; ‘ by the book’ ambivalent – undecided; blowing hot and cold esoteric – hard to understand; exhaustive – thorough; complete appease – to sooth; to pacify by giving in to frivolous – not serious; not solemn; with levity

VOCAB list 23: instigate – to provoke; to stir up apocryphal – of doubtful origin; false auspicious – favorable; promising; hackneyed –overused; trite (a cliché) torpor – sluggishness; inactivity; apathy innocuous – harmless; banal subtle – not obvious; crafty

VOCAB list 24: hypothetical – uncertain; unproven marred – damaged; bruised rejuvenate – to make young and strong again authentic – real bias – prejudice; tendency; tilt irascible – irritable saccharine – sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet

VOCAB list 25: innovate – to be creative; to introduce something new abstract – theoretical; lacking substance (the opposite of concrete) benevolent – kind; good-hearted; generous reticent – restrained; uncommunicative scrutinize – to examine closely aesthetic – having to do with artistic beauty; artistic (do not confuse with ascetic) prodigal – extravagant; wasteful