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CP12 Vocabulary 14. Tested Definitions. Aberration Abnormal behavior; moral or mental lapse Apportion Share out; assign as share Blithe Cheerful, happy; careless, casual Coalesce Come together and form a whole Connive Disregard or tacitly consent to wrongdoing; conspire. Discursive
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CP12 Vocabulary 14 Tested Definitions
Aberration • Abnormal behavior; moral or mental lapse • Apportion • Share out; assign as share • Blithe • Cheerful, happy; careless, casual • Coalesce • Come together and form a whole • Connive • Disregard or tacitly consent to wrongdoing; conspire
Discursive • Tending to digress; rambling • Eclectic • Selecting ideas, styles, etc. from various sources • Facile • Easily achieved but of little value; glib, fluent • Forswear • Renounce • Heresy • Religious belief or practice contrary to orthodox doctrine; nonconforming opinion
Incendiary • (of a bomb) designed to cause fires; inflammatory • Intransient • Remaining; permanent • Larceny • Theft of personal property • Martyr • Person who suffers or is put to death for a cause or belief • Noxious • Harmful; unwholesome
Ostensible • Apparent; professed • Philistine • Person hostile or indifferent to culture • Protégé • Person under the protection, tutelage, etc. of another • Reprobate • Unprincipled or immoral person • Temporal • Worldly as opposed to spiritual; secular; of time