Wordly Wise 4-6
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- approbation
- an expression of approval; praise
- benighted
- existing in a state of moral, cultural, or intellectual darkness; unenlightened
- bourgeois
- the middle class or a member of the middle class; very concerned with middle-class values, such as respectability and material; reflecting mediocrity
- credo
- a strongly held belief; a guide to one's actions
- empirical
- based on experience or observation as opposed to theory; capable of being confirmed by observation
- eschew
- to stay away from; to shun, especially on practical or moral grounds
- expatiate
- to speak or write about in great detail; to elaborate, usually used with "on" or "upon"
- iconclast
- one who attacks established beliefs, customs, or institutions
- indigence
- an extreme level of poverty; without means of support
- laudable
- praiseworthy
- mandate
- a clear command or instruction; to require or order
- ostensible
- only seemingly so; apparent
- recalcitrant
- unwilling to accept another's authority; stubbornly defiant
- regurgitate
- to expel (partially digested food) from the stomach; to repeat mindlessly what one has learned
- risible
- provoking or causing laughter
- archaic
- related or belonging to an earlier time
- carouse
- to take part in noisy, often drunken, merrymaking
- chicanery
- clever deception through the use of misleading or confusing words or acts
- contentious
- causing or marked by argument or conflict
- dissemble
- to conceal with an intent to deceive
- egregious
- conspicuously bad; flagrant
- execrate
- to utterly abhor; to denounce as detestable
- fealty
- faithfulness; allegiance
- microcosm
- a small system that operates or develops like a larger system; a miniature world
- paroxysm
- a sudden, violent, and uncontrollable action or occurence
- pecuniary
- having to do with money
- rectitude
- high moral character
- stratagem
- a clever scheme for gaining an end
- stultify
- to render useless or ineffectual; to weaken
- vendetta
- a blood feud; a prolonged and bitter feud
- actuate
- to cause to put into mechanical motion
- brackish
- make up of a mixture of fresh water an seawater; salty water
- cognitive
- relating to mental processes such as awareness, rembering, and reasoning
- dissertation
- a lengthy, usually written discussion of a topic, often for a college or university degree
- dolorous
- causing or marked by pain, misery, or sorrow
- endemic
- widespread or peculiar to a certain place or among a certain people
- fecund
- producing or capable of producing many offspring; intellectually or artistically productive; creative
- genealogy
- the history of a family and how its members are related to one another; also the study of such family histories
- inebriated
- deprived of good sense and judgement, especially as the result of imbibing alcohol
- insidious
- seemingly harmless while actually being dangerous; trecherous or deceptive; spreading harmfully in a subtle or gradual way
- interloper
- one who intrudes on or interferes in the affairs of others
- precursor
- a person or thing that comes before and indicates the approach of another; a forerunner
- presentiment
- a feeling that something is about to occur
- ramification
- an outgrowth of a simple idea or plan; a resulting development or consequence
- torpor
- a state opf mental or physical sluggishness or inactivity