English Vocab List 17
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Antecedent
Adj. - a preceding occurrence, cause, or event; going before
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Antediluvian
Adj. - extremely old and antiquated; anachronistic. (Archaic): Occuring or belonging to the era before the Flood (antiquated, archaic, hoary, primeval, primitive, primordial, venerable)
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Anthropomorphic
N. - attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
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Bestial
Adj. - Beastly; marked by brutality or depravity; lacking in intelligence or reason; subhuman (feral, mammalian)
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Bibliophile
N. - a lover or collector of books
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Blanch
V. - to draw back or shy away, as from fear (recoil, flinch)
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Calamitous
Adj. - Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; disastrous (cataclysmic, catatrosphic)
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Capacious
Adj. - capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
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Carnal
Adj. - Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites; wordly or earthly temporal, of or relating to the body; bodily
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Perquisite
N. - an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages; a gratuity or tip; something demanded or due as a particular privilege
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Debilitate
V. - to sap the strength or energy of; enervate; to impair the strength (enervate, incapacitate)
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Definitive
N. - Determinate; final (absolute, decisive)
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Edifice
N. - a building, especially one of imposing appearance or size; an elaborate conceptual structure
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Pejorative
Adj. - Having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force; deprecatory
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Petulant
Adj. - unreasonably irritable or ill-temperedl peevish; contemptuous in speech or behavior; easily irritated or annoyed
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Filibuster
N. - the use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action
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Glib
Adj. - performed with a natural ease; marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness (loquacious, voluble)
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Hallow
V. - to make or set apart as holy; to respect or honor greatly (revere, venerate, sactify)
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Hew
V. - to make or shape with or as if with an ax; to cut down with an ax; fell
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Hoary
Adj. - gray or white with or as with age; so old as to inspire venertion; ancient
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Idiosyncratic
N. - a structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group; a physiological or temperamental peculiarity
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Jubilee
N. - a specially celebrated anniversary, especially a fiftieth anniversary; a season or an occasion of joyful celebrationl jubilationl rejoicing
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Juggernaut
N. - something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed; an overwhelming, a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its path
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Lapidary
N. - one who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems; a dealer in precious or semiprecious stones (adj) marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expressionl sharply or finely delineated
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Peremptory
Adj. - putting an end to all debate or action; not allowing contradiction or refusal; offensively self-assured; dictatorial
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Perorate
V. - to conclude a speech with a formal recapitulationl to speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim
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Prolixity
Adj. - tediously prolonged; wordy; tending to speak or write at excessive length
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Totem
N. - an animal, plant, or natural object serving among certain tribal or traditional peoples as the emblem of a clan or family and sometimes revered as its founder, ancestor, or guardian; a represenatation
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Tintinnabulation
N. - the ringing or sounding of bells
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Fission
N. - the act or process of splitting into partsl a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus, especially a heavy nucleus such as an isotope of uranium, splits into fragments, usually two fragments of comparable mass, releasing from 100 million to serveral hundred million electron volts of energy