English amnesty
Terms
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- Amnesty
- Official pardon to a large group
- Asteroid
- One of thousands of small solid bodies that revolve between mars and jupiter
- Astral
- rel. to stars, starry, visionary, exalted
- Avid
- craving eagerly, enthusiastic pursuit of
- Avarice*
-
greed, covetousness
*cupidity* - Autopsy
- postmortem examination of dead body
- CANTANKEROUS
- ill-natured, quarrelsome
- CLANDESTINE
- held in secrecy, secret
- CONESCRATE
- to make or declare sacred; to devot to a solmn purpose
- CULL
-
to choose, select
something rejected for inferior quality - CULMINATION*
-
summit, climax, point of highest achievment
*zenith* - CUPIDITY*
-
greed, excessice desire for wealth
*avarise* - CYNICISM
- attitude, contemptuous distrust of human nature and motives
- DEBONAIR
- gaily charming, light-hearted, nonchalant
- DELETE
- leave out, eliminate, erase
- DOTAGE*
-
state of feeblemindness, esp. or age
*senility* - EULOGY
- high praise, commendatory formal statement
- GAIT
- manner of walking or moving
- JARGON
- technical terms of a group, i.e. computer; confused unintelligible language
- INDISTINCT
- not clearly defined
- LUCENT
- luminous, glowing with light; clears, marked by clearity or translucence
- LUCRATIVE
- profitable, producing wealth
- MAXIM
- proverb, general truth or rule or principle
- MEANDER
- to ramble; follow a winding course, wander
- MISINFORMATION
- misleading or untrue information
- MOROSE*
-
sullen, gloomy
*nadir* - NADIR*
-
lowest point, directly opposite zenith
*morose* - PONDEROUS
- heavy; unwieldy because of weightl ponderously dull
- PROFANE
- not holy, impure, defiled; irreverent
- REITERATE
- to repeat
- REVILE
- to scold; to use abusive language towards
- REVERBERATE
- to echo, reflect, repel, resound; drift back
- REVERIE
- daydream
- SENILITY*
-
physical and mental infirmity of old age
*dotage* - SLANDER
- to defame, malign; to utter damaging words
- SUBPOENA
- writ commanding you to testify in court
- TEPID
- lukeworm
- VERACITY
- truthfulness
- VICE
- wickedness; moral defect or fault
- VOGUE
- fashion, popularity
- VOLATILE
- changeable, fickle; easliy aroused to action; tending to erupt
- ZENITH*
-
summit, highest point
*culmination*