Monday, 6 June 2016

vocab - (6 June 2016)

WORDS
DEFINITION
EXAMPLE
Exasperate
To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely.
Would not subdue the savages; it would only exasperate them.
Excise
Remove.
A personal crusade to excise racist and sexiest references in newspaper.
Faction
A group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like.
A peace agreement will be signed by the leaders of the country’s warring factions.
Fallacy
A deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief,
To prove the fallacy of said cargo cult, Olson goes into the numbers.
Fastidious
Requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.
He fastidiously copied every word of his note on to clean paper.

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