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Vocab 11

allot                  v            to distribute or to give out, to parcel out as a ration Each student is allotted three sheets of paper for the essay, but if  you need more you may ask for it.

citadel              n            a fortress or a stronghold, especially in the center of a town Attacked by the enemy from the north, we took refuge in the walled citadel in the midst of the city.

guile                 n            cleverness or trickery, subterfuge We were a couple of innocent car buyers from the sticks, we were not prepared for the treachery and guile of the big-city auto salesman.

incendiary        adj          tending to set on fire or to inflame 1) Dropping incendiary bombs on the enemy stronghold, we burned it out of existence. 2) With savage rhetoric and incendiary speeches, the dictator inflamed his countrymen to war.

inextricable      adj          incapable of being gotten out of or escaped from After he had told so many lies that he couldn't remember them all, he found himself in an inextricable web of deception.

perjury             n             deliberately telling a falsehood while under oath Though he was innocent when he took the stand, the witness's blatant perjury landed him in jail for a long time.

portent             n            something that is an omen of dark or bad things to come The dark storm clouds stood high above the horizon as an evil portent of war.

practicable       adj         practical, workable, capable of being put into practice Though we would like to remove all the land mines in Afghanistan, such a plan is simply not practicable; there are tens of thousands of them.

prodigious        adj         huge, inspiring wonder and awe Thor, the Norse god of thunder, had such a prodigious appetite that he lowered the seas when Loki played a trick on him by dipping the end of his drinking horn in the ocean.

propitiate         v            to appease by an offering, to calm We had to propitiate the angry gods by making a blood sacrifice to them.