1100—List 5

 

1. rampant - going unchecked, widespread

 

  2. inane - foolish

 

  3. ethics - code of principles

 

  4. concur - agree

 

  5. clandestine - secret, undercover

 

  6. flagrant - outrageous, glaringly bad

 

  7. admonish - to warn, to reprove

 

  8. duress - compulsion, force

 

  9. culprit - the guilty person

 

 10. inexorable - inflexible; unrelenting

 

 11. egregious - remarkably bad

 

 12. distraught - mentally confused, crazed

 

 13. duplicity - cunning, trickery

 

 14. acrimonious - bitter       

 

 15. paucity - scarcity

 

 16.elicit - to draw forth

 

 17. pernicious - harmful, causing injury

 

 18. tolerate - to put up with, to bear

 

 19. construe - to make a deduction, to infer

 

 20. impunity - freedom from punishment

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