Basic Vocabulary

Vocabulary: Exercise 2

Words in this exercise:

 

Word  Meaning 
Coercion the action or practise of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
Concede 
admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it.
Deprecate express disapproval of.
Discursive  digressing from subject to subject.
Ensue  happen or occur afterwards or as a result.
Extirpate  eradicate or destroy completely.
Hoax a humorous or malicious deception.
Insatiable  impossible to satisfy.
Malevolence  the state or condition of being malevolent; hostility.
Misanthrope  a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
Peruse  examine carefully or at length.
Refute  prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.
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