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NLN PAX Vocabulary Words
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NLN PAX VOCABULARY WORDSAbrasions - Scrapes
Abstemious - Discipline, self-denying, moderate
Accolade - honor, privilege, award, tribute
Adamant - Inflexible, stubborn, insistent, Obstinate
Adversaries - Opponents
Affinity - empathy for, harmony
Agrarian - Farm production
Allay - reduce, diminish, decrease, lessen, alleviate, calm
Aloof - distant, detached, unfriendly
Altruist - Humanitarian, benevolent, unselfish
Ambiguous - open to more than one interpretation, double meaning, vague
Amiable - friendly, affable, amicable, cordial
Anachronism - belonging to another period other the present
Animosity - great ill - hostility, hatred
Antediluvian - Out of date, outmoded, antiquated, passé
Antithesis - opposite, contrary, reverse
Apathy - indifference, lack of interest
Apex - Highest point
Ascetic - self-discipline, self-denying
Bauble - Trinket, Ornament, Frippery
, Bedlam - Uproar, confusion, commotion, disorder
Biennial - once every two years
Bigot - Extremist, partisan, racist, sexist, chauvinist
Bogus - not genuine, not true, fake, false
Brazen - Bold, Shameless, defiant, impudent
Cacophonous - discordant
Calamity - Disaster
Callous - Heartless, cruel
Callow - Immature, juvenile, raw, untried, naive
Candid - truthful, outspoken, honest, sincere
Canter - a three-beat gait of a horse or other quadruped between a trot and a
gallop
Castes - Social class
Caterwauling - Howling, Cry, Bark, howl, scream, wail
Caustic - Corrosive, Sarcastic, Bitter
Celestial - Heavenly
Chaste - Virginal
Commonplace - ordinary, not unusual
Contiguous - adjacent, neighboring, adjoining, abutting, connecting
Convalescence - Recuperation
Conversant - Familiar with, knowledgeable about
Convivial - Pleasant
Cowardly - Pusillanimous, Lack of courage
Cryptic - enigmatic
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