Wordly Wise List 1-6
Terms
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- Acetic
- Vinegar
- Clandestine
- Secret
- Cosmic
-
1. of the universe
2. vast - Devolve
- Transfer
- Effete
- Weak
- Ensemble
-
1.Matched outfit clothing
2. Working closely together
3.Group of musicians - Exhume
-
1. dig up
2. revive - Fusillade
- firing of shots
- infraction
- breaking of a rule
- lapidary
- cutter of precious stones
- mace
-
1.ceremonial staff
2.spiked war club
3. powdered nutmeg husks - meretricious
- cheaply showy
- opulent
- luxurious
- paregoric
- pain killing drug
- refractory
-
1.unruly
2. unresponsive to treatment - tocsin
- alarm bell
- tactile
- from the sense of touch
- tribulation
- suffering
- animalcule
- microscopic life form
- collateral
-
1.security for a loan
2.supporting
3. a seperateline of descent - defray
- pay
- disconsolate
- very sad
- emeritus
- who has retired
- equable
- unchanging
- foment
- stir up
- impeach
-
charge with crime
raise doubts concerning - insipid
- uninspiring
- lariat
- rope used to catch cattle and horses
- maestro
- master musician
- meteoric
-
1. of shooting stars
2. swift - oscillate
- swing back and foth
- parole
- early release from prison
- rheumy
- watering
- temporize
-
stall for time
actmerely to suit the immediate moment - trajectory
- curved path
- vibrant
-
1.rich
2. quivering
3. energetic
asphyxiate - asphyxiate
- make unconcious by cutting off supply of oxygen
- cornucopia
-
1.inexhaustible supply
2. horn of plenty - desist
- stop
- effeminate
- woman like
- empathy
- a feeling of sharing anothers emotions or experiences
- evanescent
-
1.fleeting
2.delicate - frieze
- ornamental band on wall
- indite
-
1.write
2. compose - itinerary
- planned route
- lien
- legal claim to a debtors property
- maxim
- concisely-stated rule of conduct
- motif
- theme
- palfrey
- riding horse
- phalanx
- massed group
- svelte
-
1.sophisticated
2.gracefully slender - tertiary
- third in importance
- trenchant
- vigorously expressive
- abortive
- unsuccessful
- anomalous
- irregular
- capitous
-
1.comments
2.argumentative - coadjutor
- assistant
- disjointed
- disconnected
- educe
- arrive at
- empirical
- based on observation
- exculpate
- free from blame
- firmament
- dome of the sky
- iridescent
- of changing colors
- macerate
-
1.soften in a liquid
2. wasted away - mores
- customs
- norm
- standard applied
- optimum
- most favorable
- probity
- honesty
- rostrum
- platform used for speechmaking
- turpitude
- vileness of conduct
- accolade
- award of merit
- antipathy
- dislike
- camine
- red
- coalesce
- come together
- dissimulate
- hide ones true feelings
- egotism
- having too high an opinion of oneself
- erupt
- burst forth
- eruption
- skin rash
- felicitous
- delightful
- inflect
-
1.change the pitch of
2.change the form of - jurist
- expert on law
- meanders
-
1.winds back and forth
2.saunter - nemesis
- just punishment
- novitiate
-
1.beginner
2.probationary period in a religious order - outmoded
- outdated
- protocol
- original draft of a document
- specious
- seemingly true but actually false
- vernacular
- everyday speech
- agenda
- list of things to be done at a meeting
- apoplectic
- paralysed from a burst blood vessel in the brain
- circumspect
- cautious
- denude
- strip everything from
- dote
- be overly fond of
- dotage
- foolish old age
- emote
- express emotions dramatically
- exacerbate
- worsen
- fey
-
1.playful
2.of impending death - insatiable
- always wanting more
- laity
- religious group apart from its clergy
- mordant
-
1.biting
2.chemical that makes a dye permanent - neuter
- neither male nor female
- opprobrium
- disgrace
- precipitous
- steep
- reinstate
- restore to a former position
- throes
- violent anguish
- vicissitudes
- changes of fortune