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Lesson 1
Asperity: n. -
1. Sharpness or harshness of manner
2. Roughness of surface; uneasiness - Bane: n.
- 1. A person or thing that destroys or causes harm
- Buffoon: n.
- 1. A person who often make attempts to be funny; a clown; a fool
- Doleful: adj
- 1. mournful or full of sorrow; causing grief
- Extrovert: n
- 1. A person whose focus is on others and on what is going on around him or her; rater then their own feelings
- Garish: adj.
- 1. Excessively bright and flashy; tastelessly glaring
- Hierarchy: n
- 1. A group or system in which positions of power are ranked, usually from lowest to highest
- Imbue: v
- 1. to fill completely with a feeling or idea; to inspire
- Instigate: v
- 1. to stir up or urge on; to provoke
- Penchant: n.
- 1. A strong attraction or leaning
- Rambunctious: adj.
- 1. behaving in a wild or unruly manner
- Repertoire: n
- 1. The list of pieces an actor or musician is ready to perform; the skills or accomplishments of a person or a group
- Rudiment: n
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1. the basic principal or skill
2. An undeveloped or beginning stage - Undermine: v
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1. To weaken or ruin by degrees
2. to attack by indirect, secret, or underhanded means - Unremitting: adj.
- 1. Not stopping or slowing down, constant
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Lesson 2
Adjudicate: v. - 1. to hear or decide judicially; to judge
- Centennial: n. / adj
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1. a 100 anniversary or celebration
2. of or pertaining to a period of 100 years - Countenance: n.
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1. A person’s face, the expression on a person’s face
2. support or approve
3. v. to support or approve - Disgruntle: v.
- 1. to make dissatisfied, to put in a bad mood
- Equilibrium: n
- 1. a state of balance
- Expedite: v.
- 1. to speed up a process, to facilitate
- Gird: v.
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1. to encircle, bind, or surround
2. to get ready for action, to brace - Gratuitous:
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1. Not called for, unnecessary
2. adj. Without charge, free - Illusory: adj
- 1. unreal or imagined, deceived
- Implacable: adj.
- 1. Incapable of being placated, soothed, or significantly changed, restless
- Luminary: n.
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1. A source of light especially from the sky such as the sun or moon
2. A person who is well known for her or his achievements, a celebrity - Manifesto: n
- 1. A public statement explaining the intentions, motives or views of an individual or group
- Mesmerize: v
- 1. To fascinate, or hypnotize
- Precedent: n.
- 1. An act, statement, ect. That may serve as an example of justification for a later one
- Spurious: adj.
- 1. not genuine, false
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Lesson 3
Curtain: v. - 1. to cut short or reduce
- Discriminate: v.
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1. To make or recognize clear distinctions
2. to treat in a less favorable way
3. n. The recognizing clear distinctions
4. The act of making distinctions - Espionage: n
- 1. The act of spying especially a government spy obtaining secrets of another government
- Inalienable: adj
- 1. Not able to be taken or given away
- Incarcerate: v.
- 1. to confine or put in prison
- Indignity: n.
- 1. An insult to one’s pride; offensive or humiliating treatment
- Indiscriminate: adj.
- 1. not marked by careful distinctions, haphazard
- Infamous: adj
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1. Having a very bad reputation, notorious
2. Disgraceful, vicious - Intercede: v.
- 1. to act or plead on another’s behalf; to try to smooth the differences between two parties
- Malign: v
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1. To say negative or unfair things about; slander
2. adj. evil, showing ill will - Perpetrate: v
- 1. To commit a crime or other antisocial act
- Rampant: adj
- 1. Threateningly wild, without restraint or control; widespread
- Rancor: n.
- 1. A deep long held feeling of hatred or bitterness
- Reparation: n.
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1. Mending or repair
2. A making up or payment for wrong or damage done - Smattering: n.
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1. Superficial, scattered knowledge
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Lesson 4
Accolade: n - 1. An expression of approval or respect for special merit; an award
- Adamant: adj
- 1. Not yielding, firm
- Adulate: v.
- 1. To flatter or admire excessively; idolize
- Altercation: n.
- 1. A loud and determined dispute; a noisy quarrel
- Annals: n
- 1. A historical record of events, often arranged in yearly sequence
- Assiduous: adj.
- 1. Diligent and persistent
- Chary: adj.
- 1. Exercising caution; hesitant
- Clique: n.
- 1. A small exclusive group held together by interests or purpose
- Decrepit: adj
- 1. Worn out with use, broken down
- Endow: v.
- 1. To provoke with a quality, thing or gift of money
- Ephemeral: adj.
- 1. Lasting a very short time
- Ingratiate: v.
- 1. To work or gain favor of someone
- Pantheon: n
- 1. A group of people held in high esteem for their great achievements
- Perverse: adj.
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1. To turn away from what is right; wicked
2. Stubbornly opposing what is right or reasonable; obstinate - Tutelage: n.
- 1. Instruction, protection or guardianship
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Lesson 5
Acrimony: n. - 1. Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility
- Affinity: n.
- 1. Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship
- Ambivalent: adj.
- 1. Having mixed, often opposing feelings about something or someone; indecisive
- Cessation: n.
- 1. A stopping, either final or temporary
- Emaciated: adj.
- 1. very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny
- Enclave: n.
- 1. A distinct region or community enclosed with in a large territory
- Engender: v.
- 1. to bring into being; to produce
- Exacerbate: v.
- 1. To make severe, bitter or violent
- Illicit: adj.
- 1. Not allowed, improper, or unlawful
- Indigenous: adj.
- 1. Naturally living or growing in a certain area, native
- Inexorable: adj
- 1. Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; restless
- Infatuated: adj
- 1. Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish, love or desire
- Insatiable: adj.
- 1. Never satisfied, greedy
- Poignant: adj
- 1. Painfully moving, affecting, or touching
- Proselytize: v.
- 1. To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause
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Lesson 6
Ameliorate: v - 1. to make better; to improve
- Baleful: adj
- 1. Expressing hatred or evil; harmful, ominous
- Berate: v.
- 1. To criticize vigorously; to scold vehemently
- Circumvent: v
- 1. To avoid though craftiness
- Compunction: n.
- 1. A feeling of uneasiness or anxiety caused by guilt
- Condone: v.
- 1. To overlook or accept without punishment; to pardon or excuse
- Diminutive: adj.
- 1. Very small, tiny
- Euphemism: n.
- 1. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant
- Expendable: adj.
- 1. Able to be used up then discarded and replaced
- Heresy: n.
- 1. The expression of shocking or unacceptable views
- Infirmity: n.
- 1. Physical or mental weakness or defect
- Profane: v.
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1. To treat with scorn or irreverence
2. disrespectful of sacred things
3. Not religious; worldly - Recompense: v.
- 1. to pay or compensate
- Repast: n.
- 1. Food or drink; a meal
- Servitude: n.
- 1. A lack of freedom; forced labor
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Lesson 7
Castigate: v. - 1. to punish by criticizing sharply; to berate
- Colloquial: adj
- 1. Characterized by informal language
- Epitaph: n.
- 1. The words carved on a tomb stone in memory of the dead
- Exodus: n.
- 1. A mass departure
- Inter: v.
- 1. To put in grave to bury
- Lacerate: v.
- 1. To tear or cut roughly
- Largesse: n.
- 1. the act of giving generously; gifts
- Obituary: n.
- 1. A notice of someone’s death, such as a brief summary of a person’s life
- Omnivorous: adj
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1. Eating all kinds of food, including both animal and vegetable food
2. Taking in everything available - Permeate: v.
- 1. to spread though out; to pass through
- Rendition: n.
- 1. An interpretation or translation; a performance
- Resurgence: n.
- 1. A rising again to life, use, acceptance, or prominence, a revival
- Stereotype: n.
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1. A generalization that is used to characterize that person with out knowledge
2. a judgment - Stipend: n.
- 1. A regular or fixed amount of pay for work done or to help cover living or work expenses
- Subservient: adj.
- 1. Serving or acting in a subordinate manner; servile
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Lesson 8
Adjacent: adj - 1. near or next to adjoining
- Beset: v
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1. to surround or attack repeatedly
2. to trouble or weigh down - Cede: v
- 1. To give up or transfer, especially by treaty or formal agreement
- Circuitous: adj
- 1. Roundabout; indirect
- Desultory: adj.
- 1. Proceeding or carried out in a aimless or random way
- Galvanize: v.
- 1. To excite or arouse action
- Implement: n.
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1. A tool or instrument
2. v. to carry out - Inconsequential: adj
- 1. Lacking importance or worth; unable to make an impact; trivial
- Magnitude: n
- 1. Greatness of size, power, or influence
- Muster: .n
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1. A gathering, usually of military forces
2. v. To summon or call forth; to gather - Prohibitive: adj
- 1. Serving to restrain or discourage use of
- Reminisce: v.
- 1. To think or talk about one’s past
- Vanguard: n.
- 1. The leading of forward position in a movement
- Visionary: n
- 1. A person who is given to ideas that are not currently realistic; a dreamer
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Lesson 9
Cautionary: adj. - 1. Offering or serving as a warning
- Constrain: v.
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1. To confine, inhibit, or hold back by force or necessity
2. n. A restriction or limitation - Flotilla: n
- 1. A fleets of boats or small ships
- Gossamer: n
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1. Thin, sheer fabric resembling gauze
2. A fine, filmy substance made of strands of cobweb
3. Adj. As light and delicate as a cobweb - Ignominious: adj.
- 1. Marked by deserving or causing shame or disgrace
- Incur: v
- 1. To bring upon oneself something undesirable such as a dept
- Liquidate: v.
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1. To settle the affairs of a business; to convert into cash
2. to get rid of; to kill or destroy - Magnate: n.
- 1. An important often wealthy person prominent in a large industry or business
- Misnomer: n.
- 1. The name that does not fit
- Onerous: adj.
- 1. Burdensome; oppressive
- Pandemonium: n.
- 1. A state or place of great confusion or uproar
- Quixotic: adj.
- 1. Romantic and idealistic, but impractical
- Tenacious: adj.
- 1. Holding fast; persistent in adhering to something valued or habitual
- Vestige: n.
- 1. A trace of something that once was present
- Zephyr: n.
- 1. A light gentle breeze
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Lesson 10
Attest: v. - 1. To declare or be evidence of something as true, genuine, or accurate
- Axiom: n.
- 1. A statement or principle that requires no proof because its truth is obvious
- Churlish: adj.
- 1. Lacking good manners, rude, impolite
- Concoct: v.
- 1. to make up, prepare, or invent
- Derivative: v.
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1. Something that grows out of or as a results from an earlier form or condition
2. adj. Based on what has gone before, lacking originality - Differentiate: v
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1. to see the difference; to distinguish
2. to be or make different - Disparage: v.
- 1. To criticize in a negative, disrespectful manner
- Dissipate: v.
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1. To break up and spread so thinly as to disappear; to scatter
2. To spend or use foolishly - Esoteric: adj.
- 1. Not generally known or understood; familiar to only a relatively small number of people
- Olfactory: adj.
- 1. Relating to the sense of smell
- Plethora: n.
- 1. Too great a number; an excess
- Refurbish: v.
- 1. to make like new; to renovate
- Secrete: v
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1. To produce and give off
2. To place so as to be hidden from view, to conceal - Vagary: n.
- 1. A departure from the normal, expected course, a whim or unpredictable action
- Volatile: adj
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1. Evaporating quickly
2. changing reality; explosive, unpredictable