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| Question | Answer |
| acme | the highest point, as of attainment; pinnacle |
| acumen | superior insight; quickness and shrewdness of judgment, esp. in practical matters |
| buttress | to add support or credibility to |
| circumlocution | a roundabout, indirect, or evasive manner of speaking or writing |
| eschew | to avoid or forgo; shun |
| evince | to show or manifest clearly; give evidence of; make plain |
| immerse | to put deeply into or cover with liquid; submerge |
| impediment | an obstacle or hindrance |
| lethargic | dormant; lack of energy; inactive |
| opaque | not allowing light to pass through |
| paradigm | an example, model, pattern, or the like |
| perturb | to cause great disturbance in (the mind); agitate or worry |
| pulchritude | physical beauty or attractiveness |
| succint | briefly but clearly stated; concise |
| surmise | to infer without certain knowledge; suppose; guess |
| appalling | creating horror, shock, or dismay |
| belie | to disguise; misrepresent; to disappoint or leave unfulfilled; to prove false or show to be untrue |
| appropriate | to take for one's exclusive use; to take without permission or improperly |
| camaraderie | warm, friendly feeling of loyalty among comrades; comradeship |
| ascetic | self-denying; austere; a person who lives a life of rigorous self-denial for whatever purpose |
| betray | to aid the enemy, or make vulnerable to the enemy in traitorous ways; to break faith with; to deceive; to give away secret information |
| cajole | to coax with insincere talk; to flatter in hopes of getting one's way; to wheedle |
| ascribe | to credit to or blame something on a specific cause, event, or person |
| berate | to scold or strongly rebuke |
| attribute | to think of as belonging to, produced by, resulting from, or originating in; ascribe to; assign |
| barter | to trade goods or services without the use of money; the act of swapping; anything swapped |
| avarice | greed; to great a desire for wealth |
| barricade | a defense barrier hastily thrown up, as in street fighting; any obstacle or barrier; to obstruct |
| arboreal | having to do with trees; living in trees or adapted to living in trees |
| belligerent | at war; relating to war; of fighting; showing an eagerness to fight; spoiling for a fight |
| astute | being clever or shrewd in the mind; cunning; crafty; wily |
| bilk | to thwart; to swindle; cheat; defraud; to escape or flee leaving unpaid debts; to elude |
| bicker | to quarrel in a petty manner; to squabble; (rare) to move with quick ripping noises |
| canvass | to look over carefully; to go to or among (people) to seek votes, orders; to try to get votes |
| burrow | a hole dug by an animal or a tunnel in the ground; any hole or passage serving as a shelter, refuge; search as of by digging |
| buttress | to support or reinforce with such a structure; to prop up; bolster |
| arid | absent enough water for things to grow; dry; barren; dull; lifeless; of no interest |
| calamity | deep trouble; misery; any great misfortune entailing sorrow and loss; disaster |
| authenticate | to validate or make authentic; to verify; establish the truth of; to prove to be real, genuine |
| brandish | to wave about or shake, in a threatening or challenging way; flourish |
| carnivore | any of a number of fanged, flesh-eating mammals, like lions and tigers and bears |
| bereft | without; devoid (of); deprived; bereaved |
| assiduous | gone about with constant and careful attention; industrious; persevering |
| bore | to make a hole with a drill; to dig a well, tunnel with a turning helical tool |
| assess | to estimate the value of something for the purpose of taxing it; to estimate or determine the significance, importance, or worth of something; to evaluate |
| abridge | to reduce in scope; to shorten while maintaining the essence |
| abstain | to hold back (from); refrain from |
| accost | to approach and greet first (often in an intrusive way) |
| acquisition | the obtainment of something |
| acrimony | bitterness; sharpness, or harshness of speech, manner, or temper |
| adept | very skilled expert |
| adhere | to stick to something; stick to a plan;to stay firm in support of a leader or a plan |
| adjudicate | to hear and decide a court case |
| adorn | to be ornamental to; add beauty or distinction to; put decorations on; ornament |
| adulate | to praise too highly or flatter in a servile manner; to admire to an excessive degree |
| aerate | to open to air or to cause air to circulate through; to get oxygen to the blood |
| aesthetic | of beauty; sensitive to art and beauty; demonstrating good taste; being artistic |
| affront | to openly or purposefully insult; offend; slight; to confront in a defiant manner |
| alacrity | eager readiness or willingness, usually demonstrated by quick and lively action |
| amicable | feeling friendly; demonstrating goodwill; peaceable |
| amorphous | lacking definite form; shapeless; of no specific type; anomalous |
| ancillary | underling or subordinate; often used with to; that serves as an aid; auxiliary |
| composure | a calmness of mind or manner; tranquility; self-possession; one's togetherness |
| catnap | a doze; a short, light sleep; to take a snooze |
| condescend | to lower oneself to the level of the person one is dealing with; deign; to deal with others in a proud or haughty way |
| clique | a small exclusive circle of people; snobbish or narrow coterie |
| colloquial | normal conversational style; used to describe words, phase; informal |
| conflate | to combine or mix; to bring together; to fuse; to join or meld |
| condemn | to punish or brawl out, especially by using harsh public criticism |
| commencement | the beginning or start |
| conundrum | a riddle in which the answer contains a pun;any puzzling question or problem |
| cohere | to stick together; to be connected naturally or logically, as by some common idea or principle; to become or stay united in action; be in accord |
| castigate | to blame; strongly disapprove of; censure; to declare guilty of wrongdoing; to doom; to declare unfit for service |
| contaminate | to corrupt, make impure, infect; by adding something that shouldn't be there; pollute |
| collusion | a secret agreement for illegal or fraudulent purpose; conspiracy |
| congruous | congruent; fitting; suitable |
| consensus | an opinion held by all or most; general agreement of opinion |
| compulsion | being forced; being coerced; an irresistible irrational impulse to perform an act |
| contemptuous | full of scorn; full of contempt; disdainful |
| cloying | displeasing or distasteful due to excess; excessively sweet, sentimental |
| contrite | feeling sorrow; remorse; showing or resulting from repentance; regretting having doing wrong |
| compassion | sorrow for suffering or problems of another or others, often accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity |
| convergence | a coming together; the point at which things come together |
| convey | to carry from one place to another; transport; to act as a channel or medium for; to make known |
| conviction | the finding that a person is guilty of a crime; a strong belief |
| coop | a small cage, pen, or building for keeping poultry; any place of confinement |
| corroborate | to back up the correctness of; to confirm; to support; to bolster |
| cosmopolitan | representative of a wide area of the world; not local or provincial; not bound by local habits, likes, or dislikes; embodying worldly sophistication; fashionable, urbane |
| couch | to lower or bring down to attack position; to put in certain or specific words or phrases; express |
| critic | someone who makes judgments of people or things based on certain standards |
| critical | inclined to find fault; censorious |
| curator | someone in charge of a museum, library |
| curiosity | wanting to learn or know |
| curtail | to cut short; reduce; abridge |
| cynical | believing that all personal actions are motivated by selfishness |
| debacle | a torrent of debris-filled waters; an overwhelming defeat or route; a total, often ludicrous, collapse or failure |
| debunk | to expose the false or exaggerated claims, pretensions, glamour of con artists and charlatans |
| decorous | characterized by or showing propriety in behavior, dress; demonstrating good taste |
| deferment | a postponement; a putting off to a later time |
| defiant | full of angry resistance; openly and boldly resisting |
| deficit | an amount of money less than the necessary amount; having more liabilities than assets, losses than profits, or expenditures than income |
| deficit | the amount of money less than the necessary amount; having more liabilities than assets, losses than profits, or expenditures than income |
| deleterious | bad for health or well-being; injurious; harmful |
| define | to state or set down the boundaries of; to delinate |
| damagogue | one who tries to rouse the people by appealing to emotion, prejudice; to win them over and attain power |
| demeanor | outward manner; carriage; the way one behaves |
| democracy | gvmt. by the people, with the populace holding the reins of power, either directly or through elected representatives |
| demonstrate | to prove, show by reasoning |
| denounce | to condemn publicly; inform against; to accuse of being evil |
| depict | to portray; to represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture; to picture in words |
| deplore | to be sorry about; to regret; lament; to regard as unfortunate or awful; to disapprove of; to condemn as wrong |
| deride | to laugh at contemptuously or scornfully; to make fun of; ridicule |
| derivative | using or taken from other sources; not original |
| descent | coming or going down |
| desolate | isolated; lonely; solitary |
| destitution | the state or being very poor |
| detract | to take or draw away (from); to belittle; disparage |
| diagnosis | the act of finding or classifying a condition by means of medical examination, lab tests |
| digression | the act of straying from the main theme or idea when talking or writing; temporary straying from the main theme |
| discern | to clearly distinguish one thing from another or others |
| discordant | not in agreement, conflicting; out of harmony |
| discourse | exchange of ideas, information usually through talking or conversation |
| discovery | finding out about, seeing, or knowing about first; making famous; bringing to the public's attention |
| discredit | to reject as not true; to disbelieve |
| discretion | the ability to decide or to choose; power to judge or act; the quality of being careful about what one does or says |
| disdain | to regard or treat someone/thing as beneath one's dignity; to refuse or reject with aloofness and scorn |
| disingenuous | not straightforward; not candid or frank; insincere |
| disparage | to discredit; to speak ill of; show disrespect for; to belittle |
| disparate | not alike; distinct or different in kind; unequal |
| exemplify | to serve as an example |
| exorbitant | above and beyond what is reasonable; immodest; excessive; extravagant |
| expedite | to speed up, hasten, or facilitate something's happening; to do quickly |
| expertise | knowledge and capability of one who is highly skilled and trained in some particular field |
| explicit | distinctly and clearly stated; plain and easily understandable or observable |
| exploitation | a using of something or someone in an unethical manner for one's own benefit or profit |
| express | to squeeze out; to put into works; to reveal; to represent in artistic or musical form |
| extentuate | to lessen or seem to lessen in seriousness by excuses |
| extol | to sing praises of |
| extricate | to set free; to release; to disentangle |
| fabrication | something being constructed or manufactured; a made-up thing, especially a falsehood; false excuse; lie |
| factor | any of the conditions, circumstances that bring on a certain result; to resolve an expression into its component factors |
| fallacious | containing an error; mistaken; misleading or deceptive |
| fallible | capable of making a mistake; apt to be erroneous or less than accurate |
| falsification | a deliberately misleading account; misrepresentation; fraudulently altered record |
| fathom | to measure the depth (of water); to understand completely; comprehend |
| feasible | doable; practicable |
| felicitous | appropriate; used in a way suitable to the occasion; having the knack to pleasingly express |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood; a person who stirs up a revolution, strife, or trouble |
| flippancy | the quality or state of being frivolous and disrespectful; sauciness; impertinence |
| florid | pink; rosy or ruddy in complexion; highly showy; decorated |
| flout | to show contempt or scorn for; mock; to disregard openly; to defy; ignore |
| fluent | flowing or smoothly moving along; able to read or write smoothly and clearly in a foreign language or technical terminology |
| focus | the point at which waves (light, heat, sound) come together, or from which they seem to be generated; an adjustment of a lens to create a sharp image |
| foolhardy | rash; reckless; bold or daring in a foolish way |
| foreboding | prescience or portent, especially of something bad to come |
| forlorn | deserted or abandoned; unhappy and lonely |
| forsake | to give up; abandon; to leave; renounce |
| fortitude | the strength to withstand pain and misfortune calmly and patiently |
| foster | to carefully raise; rear; to nourish; help grow or develop; promote |
| fracture | a break or split; to crack; to disrupt; to break up |
| frugal | economic; thrifty; not wasteful; inexpensive; not costly |
| function | to act in the usual or expected way; to serve or be used as |
| fundamental | basic; at the root of; essential; radical; chief |
| gargantuan | huge; gigantic |
| garish | very showy; very bright and gaudy |
| genealogy | a chart showing the ancestry of a person or family |
| generalize | to put into nonspecific terms; to infer from |
| generation | the act of producing something; the specific act of producing offspring; procreation |
| glacial | of or like ice; of or like glaciers; produced by a glacier or during a glacial age; freezing, very cold |
| glissade | a mountain climber's deliberate slide down a slow covered hill |
| glutton | a person who can eat a copious amount |
| grandiose | imposing; impressive' magnificent; having grandeur |
| gratuity | a sum of money, often based on a percentage of the total bill, paid to a server or other service person; tip; present |
| greed | desire for more than one needs or deserves; cupidity |
| grudging | reluctant; with envy and resentment |
| hackneyed | made commonplace or trite through overuse |
| harangue | a long, loud scolding speech; a blustering tirade |
| heckle | to annoy or harass a speaker by taunting or interrupting with annoying questions |
| hedonism | the belief that the happiness of the individual or society is of paramount importance |
| heed | pay close attention to |
| heinous | terribly evil; wicked; abominable; totally awful |
| heritage | any property that has been or will be inherited; the rights, status, or duties attached to having been born of a certain status or at a specific time or place; birthright |
| hierarchy | a group of officials, persons, or things arranged by rank, class, grade |
| hinder | to restrain; hold back, prevent |
| hostility | a feeling of antagonism, ill will, unfriendliness, enmity |
| humanity | human nature; the act or quality of being of the species Homo Sapiens |
| humorous | funny; amusing; comical |
| hypocrite | someone who pretends to be pious |
| hypothesis | an unproved theory, supposition, presumption, often used to provide a jumping-off point for exploring further |
| idiosyncrasy | a personal, peculiar mannerism or affectation; individual reaction to a food, drug |
| illusory | unreal or deceptive; having the characteristics of an illusion |
| immoderate | excessive; without restraint |
| impact | to force together; to tightly pack |
| impart | to make known; tell; reveal |
| impassioned | filled with feeling, or showing very strong feeling |
| imperceptible | barely noticeable; not clearly distinct to the mind or the senses; very subtle |
| impermanent | temporary |
| impetuous | acting or done suddenly; with little thought |
| impious | lacking reverence for God; lacking respect or sense of obligation toward one's parents |
| implement | to put into effect; to fulfill; accomplish |
| implication | an involvement or connection with something, such as a crime |
| impound | to take and hold or shut up in a pound |
| impugn | to criticize or challenge as false or questionable in nature |
| impute | to ascribe; to attribute to someone; to charge with |
| incinerator | someone or thing that is used to burn things |
| incompetent | lacking adequate ability, fitness; incapable; not meeting legal qualifications |
| incomprehensible | not capable of being understood; unintelligible; obscure |
| inconsequential | unimportant; trivial; of no consequence |
| inconsistent | not in agreement; not uniform; self-contradictory; changeable |
| incorporate | to join with something already there; to combine; to embody; to include |
| indecorous | lacking propriety; lacking correctness; not in good taste; unseemly |
| indignation | righteous anger; anger at injustice, unfairness, or ingratitude |
| indomitable | not easily discouraged or subdued; unbeatable; not conquerable |
| ineffable | overwhelming; too great to be described in words; too awesome or sacred to be spoken |
| inefficacious | unable to bring about the desired result; not efficacious |
| inexorable | unmovable by persuasion, argument, or entreaty; unrelenting |
| inhibit | to restrain or hole back from some action; to keep back; keep in check |
| innocuous | that does no harm or injury; harmless; not controversial or oppressive; innocent; uninspiring and dull |
| inordinate | not regulated or orderly; lacking in moderation; too great |
| inquiry | to act of seeking information; an investigation or looking at something; a question or questioning |
| insight | the ability to intuitively grasp the inner nature of things; a clear understanding of the inner nature of a certain thing |
| insipid | tasteless; unflavored; dull; lifeless; lacking tang or zest |
| insolent | strongly disrespectful; impertinent; impudent in speech and behavior |
| instill | to put in little by little; to impart a thought, idea, and principle |
| institution | an established law, custom; an instituting establishment; an organization having a public character |
| integrate | to make whole or complete by bringing parts together; to unify; to remove the social barriers of racial segregation |
| integrity | wholeness; entirety |
| intellectual | pertaining or appealing to the ability to reason; activities of the intellect |
| intemperate | not moderate; lacking in restraint; excessive or severe; violent |
| interest | a claim to or share of something; an involvement; a concern |
| intervention | the act of coming between |
| intrepid | not afraid; bold; fearless; very brave |
| intrigue | to bring on by secret plotting; to excite the curiosity; fascinate |
| intrinsic | essential nature; not depending on outside sources; inherent |
| intrusion | the act of forcing one's self or ideas on another who has not asked for and does not welcome them |
| intuitive | having to do with understanding or learning of something without use of reasoning; learning or knowing by such a feeling |
| inundate | to cover with flood water; to engulf; to overrun with a rush or copious amount of anything |
| invaluable | priceless; too valuable to measure |
| investigative | of or inclined to look into the facts to find an answer |
| invigorate | to fill with energy or vigor; to enliven |
| inviolable | not to be profaned, injured, or violated |
| irrational | lacking the power to reason |
| irreverence | lack of respect or reverence; an act showing lack of respect; person's being treated with same |
| isolate | to set apart from others; to cause to be alone; relating to something that has been set apart |
| jaded | worn out; weary; tired |
| judicial | pertaining to judges, courts, or their functions |
| justice | impartiality and fairness |
| juxtaposition | placed side by side or close together |
| languid | lacking vitality; drooping; weak |
| latent | hidden; present but not visible; inactive |
| lavish | very generous in spending or giving; more than enough; abundant |
| levee | a retaining wall built beside a river to prevent flooding; dike; a landing place on the riverbank; a ridge of earth built around a field that is to be irrigated |
| linchpin | a pin that goes through the outer end of an axle to prevent the wheel from falling off |
| literal | having to do with the letters of the alphabet |
| obdurate | not easily moved to feeling empathy; not readily giving in; stubborn; inflexible |
| oblique | slanting; indirect rather to the point; evasive and underhanded |
| obscurity | the condition or quality of being difficult to perceive, hard to see, not well known, vague, or ambiguous |
| obstreperous | noisy, unruly, or boisterous, especially in one's opposition to something |
| office | a function or duty assigned to someone; a post or position of trust and/or authority; any government branch; the room, suit, or building occupied by people |
| onerous | laborious; burdensome; more burdensome than rewarding |
| oppression | a weighing heavily on the mind, spirit; or soul; worry; troubling; a keeping down by cruel or unjust use of power; a feeling of being weighted down as with worries or problems |
| orator | a person who delivers a formal public speech |
| orchard | an area of land set aside for the raising of fruit-bearing trees; such a stand of trees; a grove of fruit trees |
| ordain | to order; establish; decree; to predestine; predetermine; to invest with the office of a rabbi, minister, or priest |
| ornate | heavily adorned, often to excess; showy or flowery, as in some musical or literary styles |
| orthodox | conforming to the established beliefs and doctrines; designating any of the churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| ostensible | apparent; seeming; professed |
| ostentatious | showy display of wealth or learning; pretentious |
| ostracism | barring; banishment; excluding |
| pallid | pale; wan; faint in color |
| pantomime | a play or presentation wherein the characters perform actions and gesticulate, but speak no words |
| paramount | ranking above all others; utmost; chief; supreme |
| parasite | one who lives at the expense of others and contributes nothing in return |
| paraboil | partially boil to cut down on final cooking time, usually as a precursor to roasting; to make uncomfortably hot; overheat |
| parch | to expose to great heat; to dry up from heat; make hot and dry; to make or be very thirsty |
| parenthetical | interjected as explanatory or qualifying information |
| pariah | an undesirable; one despised and rejected by others; an outcast; a member or the lowest social caste in India |
| parish | an administrative district of many churches; the members of the congregation of any church; in Louisiana, the equivalent of a country in any other state |
| partisan | a person who takes one side or the other in a contest or dispute; any of a group of guerrilla fighters; like or characteristic of a partisan; blindly loyal |
| passive | acted upon without acting back; yielding; submissive; patient; taking no active part |
| paternal | like or typical of a father; fatherly; inherited from or related on the father's side |
| pellagra | a vitamin deficiency disease caused by a lack of adequate supply of Vitamin B, characterized by skin eruptions, gastrointestinal problems, and mental disorders |
| penurious | unwilling to part with money; miserly; stingy; very poor; in poverty |
| perceive | to mentally grasp; observe; take note of; to become ware of through one of the senses |
| perfidy | a deliberate breaking of trust; faithfulness; treachery |
| perfunctory | done without care; done routinely; superficial; indifferent; lacking in concern |
| periphery | the edge; an outside boundary line; the perimeter; an outside surface, especially of a spherical object; the immediate surrounding territory; outskirts |
| perishable | likely to spoil or deteriorate |
| permeate | to pass into or through and affect every part; infest |
| perpetrator | one who does something evil; doer of a crime; one who commits a hoax or a blunder |
| persnickety | too fussy; too particular or precise; fastidious; showing or needing very careful treatment |
| perspicuity | clear and easily understood; lucidity; clarity in statement and expression |
| pertinent | to the point; connected to the matter under consideration; relevant |
| pervasive | tending to spread throughout something or some group |
| philanthropic | charitable; giving; benign; humanitarian; having a desire to help mankind |
| phlegmatic | difficult to rouse to action because of sluggishness, dullness, apathy, coolness, calmness, or stolidity |
| physicist | scientist dealing with the interaction of matter and energy |
| pinion | a small gear whose teeth fit into a larger rack to accomplish motion; the last bony section of a bird's wing |
| placebo | a harmless unpotent medication given to a patient to humor him or her, or used as a control in a blind test of medications |
| pliable | easily bent or molded |
| ponderous | very heavy; difficult to handle because of weight; bulky; massive; seemingly heavy; dull and labored |
| postscript | a note added after the signature of a letter; an afterthought or supplementary information |
| potentate | a person who has a great amount of power; ruler; monarch; emperor |
| powwow | any conference or gathering |
| pragmatic | concerned with everyday practices rather than theory or idealism; practical; opinionated; dogmatic |
| preamble | an introduction, especially to a constitution, law stating what its purpose is |
| precarious | uncertain; insecure; dependent on circumstances |
| dispersal | a scattering; a spreading about |
| disregard | to pay little or no attention to; to not respect; slight |
| dissemble | to hide beneath a false appearance; to disguise; to hide the truth, or one's true feelings, motives by pretending; to behave hypocritically |
| disseminante | to scatter far and wide; spread about, as if sowing seed; make known widely |
| dissent | to have a different belief or opinion; disagree; to reject the doctrine of an established religion; the act of disagreeing, spec. a legal opinion against the majority's; religious nonconformity |
| dissimilar | not alike; different |
| dissipate | to break up and scatter; dispel; disperse |
| distinct | not alike; different |
| diversion | turning aside; distraction of attention |
| diviniation | a trying to predict the future or examine the unknown by means beyond human understanding |
| divisive | causing division, especially causing disagreement or dissension |
| divulge | to make known; disclose; unveil; reveal |
| draft | drawing or pulling of a vehicle or load; taking of liquid into the mouth; drinking; a rough or preliminary sketch of an artwork or a piece of writing |
| drub | to beat, as with a stick or club; thrash |
| duplicity | double-dealing; hypocritical cunning or deception |
| eccentric | not having the same center; idiosyncratic; not exactly circular in shape or motion |
| eclectic | taken from various sources, systems, or doctrines; made up of materials gathered from many different sources, systems, etc. |
| ecological | having to do with the relations between living things and their environment or a certain organism and its environment |
| efficacious | capable of creating the desired result; actually creating that result; effective |
| egregious | terrible; filled with undesirable qualities; amazingly bad; flagrant |
| element | the most basic part or principle of anything |
| elicit | to draw out; evoke; to cause to be revealed |
| elocution | vocalizing words distinctly when speaking in public; the art of public speaking or declaiming |
| elude | to use quickness, cunning; to avoid being captured; evade |
| embitter | to anger; make resentful or morose; to make more bitter; exacerbate; aggravate |
| embroil | to mix things up; bungle; jumble; to lure into a battle or fight; get into trouble; entangle |
| emend | to make scholarly corrections or improvements to a text; to correct or improve |
| emergence | a becoming visible; coming forth into view; a coming out; an outgrowth from beneath the outer layer of a plant |
| emigrate | to leave one country to settle down in another |
| eminent | rising above other things or places, both literally and figuratively; high; lofty; projecting; prominent; protruding |
| emissary | an agent of a government, a company, or an individual sent on a certain mission |
| emollient | something with a softening or soothing effect, especially a medicinal lotion applied to the skin of the body |
| emulate | to try to equal or surpass, often by copying |
| encompass | to close in all around; surround |
| endorse | to sign one's name on the back of a check |
| enervate | to spa of strength, life, vigor; to weaken in some way, physically or otherwise; to devitalize |
| enmity | the bitter anger or feeling of an enemy, or of mutual enemies toward one another; hostility; antagonism |
| ensemble | all parts taken together; the total effect; a complete costume |
| epidemiology | the branch of medicine that investigates the causes and control of epidemics |
| epitaph | words written on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person buried there |
| epitomize | to summarize the main points of a book, report, incident |
| eradicate | to tear out by the roots; uproot; get ride of; wipe out; destroy |
| erratic | without fixed course or purpose; irregular; random; meandering |
| essence | something existing; entity |
| evanescent | tending to be transitory; having the tendency to pass or fade from sight; ephemeral |
| evitable | avoidable |
| exacerbate | to increase in intensity; to sharpen; aggravate |
| exasperation | great irritation or annoyance; vexation |
| exculpate | to prove to be without blame or guilt; to declare to be guiltless |
| excursion | a short trip with intent to return relatively soon to the point of origin |
| exemplary | a model; worthy of imitation; serving as a warning; acting as a sample, illustration |
| precedence | priority because of superiority in rank, age, seniority |
| precedent | an earlier decision, judgement, act of law, case, etc. that serves as an example for a later one; something done based on earlier events |
| precept | a rule of moral conduct; maxim; a commandment or directive meant as a rule of conduct |
| precipitate | to cause to happen before expected or desired; to hasten |
| preclude | to make impossible; to cut out of the realm of possibilities; to prevent |
| precocious | matured to a level beyond that which is normal for one of that age |
| predecessor | a person who held the same office before the one currently occupying it |
| prehensile | adapted for grabbing, such as the tails of many monkeys; grasping |
| premise | a prior statement or condition that serves as the basis for an argument or procedure; the underlying assumption |
| prepossess | to prejudice or bias, especially favorably |
| presumptuous | overconfident or arrogant; taking too much for granted |
| pretense | an unsupported claim of having accomplished something; a false claim; a pretending, as in make-believe |
| pretentious | claiming some importance or distinction; ostentatious; showing off; self-important |
| primarily | first; originally; principally; mainly |
| procure | to get or bring about by some effort; obtain; secure |
| profundity | of great depth, especially intellectually; a profound matter, idea |
| profusion | a pouring forth with great abundance; great liberalness and wastefulness; a rich or lavish amount |
| prolific | producing an abundance of fruit or offspring; producing many works of the mind |
| provocative | provoking or tending to provoke to action, thought, feeling; stimulating; erotic |
| proximity | the state or property of being near in space or time |
| quandary | a state of uncertainty; a puzzling position or a perplexing situation; a predicament |
| quell | to crush; to put an end to; to subdue; to allay or assuage; to quiet |
| querulous | complaining; peevish; inclined to find fault |
| quizzical | comical; odd; teasing; bantering; perplexing |
| radicalism | the quality or state of being extreme, especially in political matters |
| rancorously | maliciously; spitefully; with continuous bitter ill will or hatred |
| raucous | hoarse; rough sounding; loud and bawdy |
| reactionary | characteristic of or advocating definition |
| rebuff | to snub; bluntly reject; to check or turn back |
| reconcile | make consistent; become friendly again; to settle |
| reconnoiter | to make a reconnaisance, to seek out information about enemy installations or positions; to make a preliminary survey |
| recrimination | the answering of an accusation by accusing the accuser; countercharge |
| rectify | to set right; correct |
| redoubtable | formidable; fearsome; commanding respect |
| redundancy | to quality of being excessive; super-fluity; an overabundance |
| refract | to cause a ray of light to bend, as it does when passing obliquely from one medium to another of different density; to measure the degree of bending of a ray of light |
| refute | to prove to be wrong; to prove incorrect by argument or evidence |
| regale | to entertain with a great feast; to delight with something enjoyable or amusing |
| regurgitate | to cause to flow backward, notably from the stomach to the mouth; to give back information that has been only partially digested |
| relapse | to slip or fall back into a former condition, disease, or bad habit, especially after improvement |
| relinquish | to abandon |
| remiss | negligent in; careless about; lax |
| remnant | what is left over; remainder; a small remaining part or quantity; last trace; a piece of cloth or carpet left at the end of a roll |
| remnant | what is left over; remainder |
| remuneration | the act of paying for work done; reward; payment; compensation |
| prender | to deliver, present, or submit for payment; to give in return; to pay something due or owed; to represent or depict |
| renovate | to make sound again; to clean up and make like new; to revive; refresh |
| renunciation | the act of formally giving up, often at the cost of a right, claim, title, etc. |
| repentance | a feeling of sorrow or self-reproach for what one has done or has not done |
| reprehensible | deserving reprimand or rebuke; fault filled; awful |
| repudiate | refuse to have anything to do with; disown; to deny the validity or authority of |
| resplendent | brightly shining; dazzling; splendid |
| retroactive | affecting things that took place earlier; going into effect at a specified date in the past |
| reveler | one who is noisily partying; one delighting in one's freedom; a merrymaker |
| revulsion | extreme shock, disgust, or repugnance |
| rhetoric | the art or skill of using words effectively in speaking or writing |
| ridicule | the act of making someone or something the object of scorn; to mock; to poke fun at |
| rite | a formal ceremony or act associated with a religious procedure or observance |
| ruffian | hoodlum; a violent, lawless, brutal person; a tough guy |
| rural | not urban or suburban |
| sacrosanctity | something very sacred; holiness; inviolability |
| sagacious | showing keen perception and sound judgment |
| salvage | to save or rescue from a shipwreck, or fire, flood, etc.; to engage in the saving of goods or wrecked ships; anything so rescued, especially the refloating of lost ships for historical purpose or for monetary compensation, or the recovery of goods from wreckages |
| sanctimonious | pretending to be very holy or pious; feigning righteousness |
| sanction | authorized approval or empowerment from an authoritative agent or agency; support, encouragement; a coercive measure taken by a group to bring someone or something into line |
| satire | a literary work, or works, that uses sarcasm, irony, etc. to expose and attack or deride vices, foibles |
| scalpel | a small, light knife with a very sharp blade used by surgeons and for dissections |
| scapegoat | a person, place, or thing upon which the crimes or misdeeds of others are blamed |
| scholar | a learned person |
| scrutinize | to look at very carefully |
| séance | a meeting at which a medium or psychic attempts to communicate with the dead |
| sedative | soothing or quieting |
| sentence | the judgement of a court of law |
| sentiment | a complex combination of opinions and feelings; an emotional attitude; the meaning behind something |
| serendipity | an apparent gift for discovering god things by accident; luck or good fortune in accidentally finding something good |
| shun | deliberately stay away from; scrupulously and consistently avoid |
| sinnuate | s-shaped, like a sine curve |
| skeptical | not easily persuaded or convinced |
| smugness | self-satisfaction to an annoying degree; complacency |
| solace | an easing of loneliness, grief, or discomfort; comfort; relief |
| solicitude | the state of showing care, concern, sometimes to excess |
| somber | dark and gloomy; dull |
| sonnet | a poem, usually 14 lines in length in iambic pentameter, generally on a single theme |
| spate | an unusually large outpouring, usually one of words |
| specious | seeming to be correct, without really being so; plausible, but not actual |
| spectacle | a strange and/or remarkable sight; a public exhibition on a grand scale |
| spurious | false; make-believe; not genuine |
| squelch | to crush or squash by stamping on |
| stemming | stopping or checking; closing, plugging, or tamping a hole; removing the stem from a vegetable or a piece of fruit |
| stimulant | any drug, medication, experience, sight, etc. that temporarily excites some organ or the central nervous system |
| stradle | to have one's legs on either side of |
| subjective | governed by what is in one's mind, rather than by reality; not objective; personal; introspective |
| subtlety | the ability or tendency to be able to make fine distinctions; the quality or condition of being delicately skillful or clever |
| subvert | to undermine or corrupt; to overthrow an established power by indirect means |
| sully | soil; stain; tarnish or besmirch, especially by disgracing |
| superficial | limited to the surface; concerned with the obvious only |
| supplant | to replace; supersede |
| surfeit | excess; too great a supply |
| surreptitious | clandestine; done in a secret or stealthy way |
| susceptible | easily affected or emotionally moved; sensitive in nature; easily influenced |
| synergistic | the simultaneous working together of several organs or agencies |
| synonymous | equivalent or similar in meaning; having the nature of a synonym; being another word or name for |
| synthesize | to put together different parts to form a whole; to assemble |
| talisman | something (ring, necklace, bracelet) bearing symbols or engraved figures thought to bring good luck; anything thought to have magic power |
| tangential | diverging or digressing; going off at an angle, like a tangent |
| temerity | audacity; recklessness; foolhardiness |
| temperament | one's usual state of mind or disposition; nature; natural disposition |
| temperance | self-restraint |
| tenacious | holding on firmly; retaining well; retentive; persistent; stubborn |
| tendency | an inclination, bent, or propensity to move in a certain direction; an apparent moving toward some particular purpose; drift; a purpose or point of view |
| tentative | proposed, but not definite; uncertain |
| tenuous | not substantial; flimsy; inconclusive |
| testimony | a declaration or statement made under oath, sometimes in response to questioning, before a court of some sort; a public affirmation; any kind of evidence; any sworn statement |
| tether | a rope or cord fastened to something to prevent its escape; to tie up or confine something/someone using a tether |
| therapeutic | working to heal or cure; curative |
| throng | a great number of people gathered together; a crowd; a mass of things; multitude |
| timorous | full of fear; subject to fear; timid; caused by timidity |
| tome | a book, especially a large, ponderous, and/or scholarly one |
| torpid | temporarily having lost all sensation and the ability to move |
| tourniquet | a pressure bandage whose purpose is to temporarily clamp off the flow of blood through a part of the body |
| tractable | easily managed, controlled, or taught; docile; compliant; easily workable, malleable |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of peacefulness; calmness; serenity |
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