Building a Better Vocabulary

Lecture 21

1. Both words can mean “to relinquish power,” but abdicate is usually
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2. antediluvian


3. solipsism


4. ablution


5. denuded


6. absquatulate


7. nihilism


8. protean

Lecture 22

1. asperity


2. importuning/fractious


3. inured


4. splenetic


5. Phlegmatic means “showing little emotion”; stoic means “seemingly
   indifferent to pleasure or pain; stolid means “having or expressing little
   or no sensibility.”