eng vocab words
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- congeries
- a pile, an aggregation
- consortium
- a sharing together, a group working together
- crux
- crucial or critical point
- emeritus
- having earned; having served one's time, served with distinction
- ergo
- therefore; hence; accordingly
- fiat
- "Let it be done" a command that is to go into effect without further ado
- gravamen
- heaviness; the weight of a charge; the essential point;a formal charge
- hiatus
- a gap; interval; a lapse of time
- ibidem
- in the same place--commonly used when citing references as footnotes--Ibid.
- imprimatur
- approval; sanction
- incubus
- a nightmare; an oppressive burden
- mores
- customes; moral attitudes; moral codes
- nostrum
- a secret remedy or medicine recommended by its maker or seller--cure-all-- quack medicine
- simulacrum
- likeness; image; imitation
- ad infinitum
- forever
- alter ego
- second self; best friend
- ante bellum
- before the war--civil war
- Caveat emptor
- "Let the buyer beware"
- corpus delecti
- body of the crime; evidence that a crime has been committed
- cum laude
- with praise; with honor
- dramatis personnae
- persons of the drama; the cast
- facsimile
- an exact copy
- interim
- meanwhile; provisional; temporary; an interval
- in toto
- in all; entirely
- verbatim
- word for word
- viva voce
- with the living voice; oral
- vox populi
- the people's voice
- anachronism
- an error in respect to dates or the order of historical events
- bedizen
- dress gaudily
- benison
- a blessing
- bete noir
- an object of aversion or dislike
- chaparral
- a dense thicket
- charlatan
- a pretender
- cognizant
- knowingly
- daedal
- intricate
- debauch
- corrupt
- emollient
- a substance that softens or soothes
- engender
- to cause
- excoriate
- to denounce or remove the skin from
- film noir
- a type or motion picture characterized by a grim setting and an aura of mystery
- fruition
- realization, attainment
- harangue
- a tirade
- kismet
- fate or destiny
- languor
- lack of spirit or vigor
- lascivious
- lewd, indecent
- lugubrious
- mournful
- mirth
- laughter
- mundane
- worldly
- narcissism
- abnormal tendency to admire one's own perfections
- nepotism
- undue favoritism to relatives
- nonplus
- perplex, confuse
- obloquy
- abusive laughter, slander
- postulate
- assert or assume as a basis for reasoning