Wordly Wise 1-8
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- Apocryphal
- Of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
- Arcane
- Understood by only a few; mysterious
- Convene
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1. To summon or cause to settle
2. To gather or assemble; to meet formally - Expedient
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1. Useful for some purpose; convenient
2. Concerned primarily or exclusively with serving one's own interests
3. A means employed to bring about a certain result. - Exude
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1. To flow out slowly; to ooze or emit
2. TO give forth; to exhibit in abundance - Gesticulate
- To motion energetically with the body or limbs
- Imperturbable
- Calm and assured
- Increment
- An increase, addition or gain, often by regular, consecutive amounts
- Levity
- Excessive frivolity, a lack of seriousness, joking
- Mortify
- To embarrass or humiliate
- Periphery
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1. The area around the edges; the outermost part
2. Relating to, involving, or forming an outer edge or boundary - Raconteur
- One who tells stories with skills and wit
- Reiterate
- To say or do over again; to repeat
- Subterfuge
- A deceptive scheme or strategy
- Vacillate
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1. To move back and forth from lack of balance; waver
2. To alternate indecisively between opinions or courses of action - Accoutrements
- Equipment or accessories
- Aggrieved
- Feeling or expressing a sense of injustice, injury, or offense
- Choleric
- Easily angered; quick-tempered
- Comport
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1. To behave or conduct oneself
2. To be in accord or agreement - Disconcert
- To disrupt the self-possession or confidence of; to perturb or fluster
- Fauna
- Animals of a region or period,considered as a whole
- Interpose
- To place or come between; to intervene or interrupt
- Maraud
- To roam in search of plunder
- Modicum
- A small amount
- Opulent
- Having or exhibiting great wealth or abundance
- Patrician
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A member of the nobility
-of noble birth, showing refinement of taste or manners - Phlegmatic
- Not given to action or reation; sluggish or calm in temperament
- Propensity
- A natural inclination or tendency
- Therapeutic
- Relating to the treatment of a disease; contributing to general well-being
- Utilitarian
- Relating to usefulness rather than beauty; practical
- Atrophy
- To waste away or fail to develop
- Efficacy
- The power to bring about the desired result; effectiveness
- Emolument
- Salary or fees done; compensation
- Icon
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1. A religious painting, especially one revered by the Eastern Christian churches
2. A symbol or image whose form suggests its meaning.
3. One who is idolized - Incipient
- Beginning to exist or appear; in the first stage
- INculcate
- To impress upon or teach by frequent repetition
- Inestimable
- Too valuable or great to be measured
- Lackluster
- Lacking brightness or vitality; without spirit or enthusiasm
- Martinet
- A strick disciplinarian
- Prodigious
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1. Extremely large in bulk, quantity, or degree
2. Causing amazement or wonder - Regimen
- A regulated program, especially one designed to improve or maintain health
- Stellar
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1.Of or related to a star
2. Outstanding or brilliant - Stoic
- One seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain
- Vibrant
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1. full of life or vigor
2. Bright or vivid
3. Quivering or vibrating - Zealous
- Very enthusiastic, fervent, passionate on behalf of someone or something
- Autonomy
- The quality or state of being self-governing; independence
- Circumspect
- Cautious and prudent; heedful of consequences
- Composure
- Calmness of mind or bearing; self-control
- Edifice
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1. A large, imposing structure or building
2. A complex structure or system built up over time as if it were a real building - Ensconce
- To settle or place securely or snugly
- Environs
- Area adjoining or surrounding a place
- Hapless
- Marked by the absence of good luck; unfortunate
- Heinous
- Shockingly evil or wicked
- Incognito
- With one's identity concealed; unrecognized
- Indoctrinate
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1. To teach or train in the fundamentals
2. To instill or teach from a partisan point of view - Interim
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1. AN interval of time between events
2. Belonging to or taking place between events; temporaryy - Mausoleum
- A large and impressive tomb
- Pillage
- To rob and plunder
- Reverie
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1. Condition of being lost in thought
2. A daydream - Thrall
- A loss of one's ability to act freely; a state over which one appears to have no control
- Abstruse
- Difficult to understand
- Accrue
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1. To arise or increase as a natural result or growth
2. To come as a regular addition - Acquiesce
- To accept as inevitable; to comply passionately
- Besmirth
- To stain or tarnish; to make dirty
- Explicit
- Fully and clearly expressed, leaving nothing merely implied
- Histrionic
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1. Purposely affected; theatrical
2. Exaggerated displays of emotion, intended to produce an effect or response - Impropriety
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1. The quality or state of being improper or unsuitable
2. Something that is improper - Inveigle
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1. To lure or trick into doing something
2. To obtain by flattery or trickery - Penitent
- Sorry for having done wrong
- Probity
- Honesty; trustworthiness; adherence to virtue
- Purport
- To give or present the often false impression of being someone or intending something
- Repercussion
- An unforeseen or indirect result or effect of an event
- Revelation
- Something that is made known or revealed, often coming as a surprise
- Surfeit
- An overabundant supply; an excess
- Unsavory
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1. Having an unpleasant look, taste, or smell
2. Morally offensive - Anathema
- Someone or something that is intensely disliked, cursed, or shunned
- Assuage
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1. To satisfy
2,. To lesson or reduce the intensity of - Avuncular
- Like a benevolent uncle; familiar and indulgent
- Convivial
- Sociable; concerned with good company and festivities
- Eclectic
- Combining elements from a variety of sources
- Epigram
- A short, witty poem or saying
- Expound
- To explain in detail, set forth
- Intrinsic
- Relating to the essential nature of something; real or actual
- Inveterate
- Habitual or deeply rooted; persistent
- Mogul
- A very powerful person; a magnate
- Munificent
- Extremely gracious, liberal in giving
- Nascent
- Beginning to exist, emerge
- Perspicacious
- Clear-sighted; shrewd
- Philistine
- 1. One who is indifferent to or disdainful of intellectual values
- Propitious
- Tending to favor or assist; encouraging
- Achipelago
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1. A large group of islands
2. A body of water containing a large number of islands - Careen
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1. To rush headlong, often with a swerving or lurching motion
2. To cause or lean or tip to one side - Cavalier
- Showing an offhand or carefree disregard; arrogant
- Contigous
- Sharing a boundary; being very close or in contact; adjacent
- Correlate
- To connect related things; to bring things into proper relation with one another
- Etymology
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1. The history of a word
2. The science that studies such histories - Frenetic
- Wildly excited, frantic
- Kinetic
- Relating to motion
- Presage
- To foretell; to warn or indicate in advance
- Pulverize
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1. To crush or grind into dust or powder
2. To demolish - Recondite
- Difficult to understand; abstruse
- Repulse
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1. To repel; to drive back
2. To reject in a cool or distant manner
3. To disgust - Seismic
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1. Caused by or having to do with earthquakes
2. Having powerful and widespread effects - Undulate
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1. To form or move in waves
2. To have a wavelike appearance or motion - Upheaval
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1. A radical or violent change
2. A forceful lifting or warping from beneath - Betrothed
- Engaged to be married
- Blasphemy
- An act or statement that shows disrespect or irreverence toward someting considered sacred
- Cadence
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1. A rhythm marked by a regular beat
2. The rising and falling of the voice in human speech - Canon
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1. A rule or principle that provides the norm for judgment
2. The works of a writer accepted as authentic - Denouement
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1. The outcome of a series of events
2. The final resolution following the climax of the plot of a work of drama or fiction - Edict
- A statement or command having the force of law
- Enamor
- To inspire with love; to captivate
- Insensate
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1. Lacking sensation or awareness
2. Lacking sense or ability to reason
3. Brutal, lacking feeling - Renegade
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1. A person who deserts one group or cause for another; a traitor
2. A person who rejects lawful behavior - Soliloquy
- A speech in which a character's thoughts are given verbal expression
- Stricture
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1. A strong criticism
2. Anything that restricts or limits - Triumverate
- A group of three; especially expressing great power or eminence
- Usurp
- To seize and hold power or authority in an illegal or unjust manner
- Vestment
- An outer garment, especially one indicating a role, rank, or office
- Votary
- A person who is devoted to a cause or organization , especially one of religious nature