Wordmasters 3 2008
Gold Division
Terms
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- furtive
- [adj] sneaking, hidden, obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy.
- anthropomorphic
- suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things
- transpire
- to become apparent; to come to light
- bulkhead
- a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
- metaphysics
- branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of existence
- glassine
- A nearly transparent, resilient glazed paper resistant to the passage of air and grease.
- isotropic
- the universe looks the same in any direction
- languorous
- dreamy, lazy quality
- juxtaposition
- the act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison
- pristine
- primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier times, unadulterated
- gluttony
- eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- determinate
- Definitely limited or fixed.
- synapse
- The site where communication occurs between a nerve cell and some other cell.
- rueful
- feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
- bathos
- appearance of the commonplace in elevated matter
- venerate
- to honor, to revere
- viability
- (of living things) capable of normal growth and development
- collude
- To act in concert; to conspire; to plot.
- tableau
- n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
- increment
- (n.) an enlargement, increase, addition
- parador
- A government-run country hotel in Spain or Latin America.
- crevasse
- A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
- enclave
- an encolsed district inhabited by a particular group of people
- formulaic
- characterized by or in accordance with some formula
- inertia
- the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion
- tangential
- Only superficially relevant; divergent