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Understanding Key Vocabulary: Culpable, Cursory, and More

Enhance your vocabulary with essential words that describe complex concepts. This guide covers terms such as "culpable," highlighting the importance of reasonable evidence in implying guilt. Explore "cursory," which refers to hurried tasks lacking detail, and discover how "debilitate" relates to health issues in vulnerable populations. Understand "decorum" and its significance in social behaviors, while also delving into terms like "degradation," "deplore," "depravity," "deprecate," "deride," "derivative," and "deterrent" to enrich your language and comprehension skills.

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Understanding Key Vocabulary: Culpable, Cursory, and More

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  1. Vocabulary Unit 8

  2. Culpable - ADJ • Deserving blame • Suspects cannot be held unless there is reasonable evidence that they are culpable.

  3. Cursory – ADJ, ADV • Done with haste and little attention to detail • Many teenagers only do a cursory cleaning of their bedrooms.

  4. Debilitate - Verb • Weaken; enfeeble • Diseases debilitate many people in Africa who don’t have adequate nutrition and lack of access to modern medicine.

  5. Decorum - Noun • Orderliness and good taste in manners • The senior prom gave the usually rowdy Jack a chance to show us he could behave with decorum.

  6. Degradation - Noun • Humiliation; degeneration • The deliberate degradation of the prisoners of war is prohibited under the Geneva Convention.

  7. Deplore - Verb • Regret; disapprove of • Many people deplore the showing of extreme violence on television.

  8. Depravity - Noun • Extreme corruption; wickedness • War often brings out the most extreme forms of depravity in human beings, such as use of torture.

  9. Deprecate - Verb • Express disapproval of; belittle • After the principal deprecated the new teacher in front of her class, the students lost their respect for him.

  10. Deride - Verb • Ridicule; make fun of • Some people deride the study of art as a waste of time.

  11. Derivative - Noun • Unoriginal; derived from another source • Critics agree that the new novel is merely derivative, offering nothing new in either style or content.

  12. Deterrent - Noun • Something that discourages • The library’s policy of allowing students to take out only one book at a time is a deterrent to reading.

  13. Digression - Noun • Wandering away from the subject • Avoid digressions when you are writing an essay; teachers expect your writing to be focused and free of irrelevant information.

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