january 2006 vocabulary
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- ameliorate
- become better; make better; improve; enhance
- conserve
- keep from waste, loss, decay; save
- detriment
- injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage
- exotic
- introduced from another country; foreign
- folly
- lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking
- formerly
- in an earlier period; previously
- harmony
- peacable or friendly relations; accord; agreement; tranquillity
- ignore
- refuse to take notice of
- impediment
- something that hinders or obstructs; obstacle
- indolence
- disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic
- intact
- untouched by anything that damages or diminishes; left complete or entire; uninjured
- invalid
- not binding in law; having no force or effect; void; nugatory
- noncarcinogenic
- not producing or tending to produce cancer
- parsimonious
- unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy; miserly; tightfisted
- raze
- destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level
- reticent
- inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative; reserved
- retire
- withdraw from active duty or business
- retort
- answer; reply sharply or angrily
- subvert
- overturn or overthrwo from teh foundation
-
tractable
retractable leash - easily led, taught, or controlled; yielding; doctile; amenable
- baffle
- bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion
- cinema
- movies; motion picture industry
- despise
- look down on with contempt or disgust; loathe; regard as inferior
- ebullient
- overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant; effervescent; high spirited
- exaggerate
- overstate; go beyond the limits of the actual truth
- exhort
- arouse by words; strongly advise
- expertise
- specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how
- finicky
- excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy
- gall
- make sore, irritate mentally; annoy, vex
- indemnify
- compensate for loss, damage, or injury
- Occident
- west; countries of America and Europe
- peruse
- read; look at fairly attentively; study
- scuffle
- struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner; wrestle; grapple
- spurn
- thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject
- stipend
- fixed pay for services; salary
- surveillance
- close watch over a person, group, or area; supervision
- tepid
- moderately warm; lukewarm
- wager
- risk on the outcome of a contest or uncertain event
- wane
- decrease in power or size; dwindle decline sink
- abhorrent
- in conflict; utterly opposed; loathsome
- admonish
- reprove gently but seriously
- ambrosial
- extremely pleasing to the taste or smell; delicious
- confine
- shut up; imprison, keep in narrow; cramped quarters
- decade
- period of ten years
- denotate
- explode with suddenness and violence
- ephemeral
- lasting one day only; fleeting transitory; short-lived
- gullible
- easily deceived or cheated
- haggle
- dispute or argue; bargain
- immerse
- pluge or place into liquid
- insomnia
- inability to sleep
- lapse
- slip; error; accidental mistake
- probe
- critical inquirey into suspected illegal activity
- render
- hand down officially; deliver
- repast
- food for one occasion of eating
- replenish
- bring back to condition of being full
- score
- group or set of twenty
- snub
- act or instance of snubbing
- suture
- strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; stitch with such material
- unwittingly
- unintentional; by accident
- acquit
-
relieve from accusation
perform one's part - complex
- having varied interrelated parts; hard to understand
- consign
- give, transfer, or deliver
- effrontery
- shameless boldness; insolence; gall
- excruciating
- causing great pain or anguish; agonizing
- forebearance
- act of forbeearing
- hamper
- interfere with; hinder; impede
- nettlesome
- irritating; causing annoyance or vexation
- oblivious
- unmindful of
- prodigious
- extraordinary in amount or size; enormous; gigantic
- rejuvenate
- make young or youthful again
- residue
- whatever is left after a part is taken
- salutary
- favorable to health; beneficial
- scrutinize
- examine very closely
- supersede
- force out of use; displace
- sweltering
- oppresively hot
- unruffled
- not upset or agitated; calm; cool; unflustered
- unwieldy
- hard to handle because of weight
- withdraw
-
take back
draw back; go away - zany
- having the characteristics of a clown; mildly insane