Lessons 21-30
Review for Lessons 21-30 in The Word with the Word
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- subterfuge
- evasive dodge
- egomania
- self-obsession
- ponderous
- weighty
- effusion
- outpouring
- credible
- believable
- elucidate
- explain
- audiophile
- stereo buff
- equivocate
- to hedge
- condign
- worthy
- luminary
- enlightening person
- invidious
- causing envy
- disingenuous
- insincere
- benediction
- blessing
- infraction
- breaking
- soliloquy
- speech to oneself
- delineate
- to outline
- expatriate
- banish
- heliotropic
- sun-following
- egocentric
- self-centered
- perspicuous
- brilliantly clear
- pathogen
- disease-causer
- depose
- topple from power
- casus belli
- cause of war
- sanguinary
- bloody
- polyphonic
- multi-melodic
- polyglot
- multi-linguist
- magnum opus
- great work
- supersede
- replace
- emollient
- softener
- euphoria
- joy
- impending
- overhanging
- insurgence
- uprising
- excoriate
- verbally flog
- euphony
- beautiful sound
- emissary
- messenger
- diction
- word choice
- philanthropy
- love of mankind
- status quo
- present state
- idiosyncrasy
- peculiarity
- cacophony
- bad noise
- circumspect
- cautious
- congenial
- at birth
- inanimate
- lifeless
- mobocracy
- mob rule
- ichthyoligist
- fish-scientist
- disputatious
- argumentative
- oligarchy
- government by few
- subordinate
- lower
- captious
- fault-finding
- adherent
- supporter
- belligerent
- warring
- prescience
- foreknowledge
- corpulent
- full-bodied
- unequivocal
- direct
- egregrarious
- blatant
- transpose
- switch
- retribution
- revenge
- deduction
- reasoning down from principles
- incredulous
- not believing
- filigree
- lacy design
- temporize
- delay
- specious
- false
- advocate
- speak for
- circumvent
- get around
- intracranial
- within the skull
- cardiovascular
- of the heart and vessels
- pusillanimous
- small-minded
- benefactor
- helper
- anthropomorphic
- man-shaped
- precursor
- forerunner
- cognizant
- aware
- tangible
- touchable
- prestidigitation
- sleight of hand
- cryptic
- having hidden meaning
- impute
- attribute discredit
- caustic
- burning
- xenophobia
- fear of foreigners
- androgynous
- male or female
- agoraphobia
- fear of openness
- malevolence
- evil intent
- circumscribed
- limited
- acronym
- initials-name
- disconsolate
- inconsolable
- intractable
- stubborn
- primate
- monkeys, apes, humans
- revoke
- cancel
- anthology
- literary collection
- epigram
- witty comment
- dichotomy
- two part division
- euphenism
- pleasant name
- paradigm
- model
- sinecure
- an easy lucrative job
- analgesic
- pain-killer
- abjure
- renounce
- cognoscenti
- those who know
- discursive
- rambling
- petroglyph
- rock carving
- carnage
- butchery
- animadversion
- criticism
- entomology
- insect zoology
- mundane
- worldly
- perspicacity
- insight
- comport
- behave
- confluence
- flowing together
- infidel
- unbeliever
- punctilious
- precise in conduct
- eccentricity
- oddness
- amorphous
- shapeless
- stringent
- binding
- magnanimous
- great-minded
- collateral
- side by side
- anomaly
- abnormality
- polychrome
- many-colored
- joie de vivre
- joy of living
- induction
- factual reasoning
- isosceles
- having two equal sides
- chronic
- lasting
- bootless
- useless
- chronicle
- a history
- misanthropist
- people-hater
- colloquy
- conversation
- antediluvian
- from before the Flood!
- improvident
- without foresight
- interregnum
- time between rulers
- sanction
- authorize
- bona fide
- good faith
- alumni
- graduates
- supercilious
- scornful
- exorbitant
- unreasonable
- bilateral
- two-sided
- cosmology
- study of the universe
- invective
- bitter denunciation
- chiromancy
- palm reading
- recant
- retract
- superfluous
- unnecessary
- resurgence
- rising again
- hagiocracy
- government of saints
- condescend
- lower oneself
- convivial
- jovial, festive
- veracity
- truthfulness
- rubicund
- red
- ingenuous
- innocent and naive
- neophyte
- beginner
- platitude
- flat trite remark
- somnambulist
- sleepwalker
- synopsis
- summary
- perfidious
- treacherous
- posthumous
- after death
- inexorable
- inescapable
- malediction
- a curse
- metamorphosis
- change of shape
- tortuous
- twisting
- octagenarian
- an eighty-year-old
- primeval
- of the first ages
- pandemonium
- demonic clamor
- kleptomaniac
- pathological thief
- sonorous
- full-sounding
- plutocracy
- government of the wealthy
- narcolepsy
- attacks of sleep
- megalomania
- delusions of greatness
- histology
- study of living tissues
- bellicose
- warlike
- intercede
- mediate
- vociferous
- loudly-voiced
- pathological
- diseased
- pugnacious
- combative
- introspective
- inward looking
- in loco parentis
- in place of parents
- saturnine
- gloomy and remote
- unilateral
- one-sided
- cognomen
- nickname
- sacrosanct
- sacred
- omnifarious
- of all kinds
- somniferous
- bringing sleep
- magnate
- powerful person
- irrevocable
- beyond recall
- neologism
- new-word
- abrogate
- annul
- omniscient
- all-knowing
- epiphany
- revelation
- amour-propre
- self-love
- perihelion
- orbital point nearest the sun
- prototype
- first model
- eulogy
- words of praise
- incisive
- sharp
- inherent
- built-in
- terra firma
- solid ground
- hyperbole
- overstatement
- rectilinear
- right-angled
- gregarious
- sociable
- diaphanous
- semitransparent
- anthropoid
- manlike
- diatribe
- abusive criticism
- enumerate
- to list
- moribund
- dying
- ethnocentrism
- racial or cultural prejudice
- intervene
- come between
- Russophobe
- one who fears Russia
- fractious
- unruly
- dissonant
- inharmonious
- preponderance
- bulk
- diffident
- shy
- refractory
- stubborn
- melancholy
- dark sadness
- sanctimonious
- affectedly holy
- loquacious
- talkative
- vivacious
- lively
- gerontocracy
- government of the old
- viable
- able to live
- bon vivant
- indulger in luxury
- acrophobia
- fear of heights
- preclude
- foreclose
- tractable
- docile
- pellucid
- crystal clear
- demagogue
- corrupt politician
- sine qua non
- essential element
- schism
- division
- urbane
- sophisticated
- rectify
- correct
- surfeit
- excess
- synthesis
- combination
- intransigent
- not compromising
- pedagogue
- teacher
- germane
- related
- mollify
- make soft
- fidelity
- faithfulness
- hemiplegia
- paralysis on one side
- expeditiously
- rapidly
- bonhomie
- good-naturedness
- magniloquence
- great eloquence
- android
- robot
- decadent
- downfallen
- cryptologist
- code breaker
- apotheosis
- raising to god status
- mutable
- changeable
- commensurate
- of like measure
- sedentary
- sitting
- syndrome
- complex of symptoms
- prognosis
- medical forecast
- exculpate
- free from blame
- nondescript
- of no category
- retrograde
- backward
- verisimilitude
- similarity to truth
- prolific
- productive
- renovate
- restore
- monomania
- obsession with one thing
- nihilism
- belief in nothing
- anarchist
- one against government
- circumlocution
- talking in circles
- panegyric
- elaborate eulogy