WW Chapters 1-20
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- Asperity
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Sharpness or harshness of manner.
Roughness of surface; unevenness - Bane
- A person or thing that destroys or causes harm
- Imbue
- To fill completely with a feeling or idea; to inspire
- Penchant
- A strong attraction or leaning.
- Rudiment
-
Basic principle or skill
An undeveloped or beginning stage. - Adjudicate
- To judge
- Countenance
-
Exprression on a person's face.
Support or approval - Expedite
- To speed up a process; facilitate.
- Gratuitous
-
Not called for; unnecessary
Without charge; free - Percedent
- An act, statement, that may serve as an example of justification for a later one
- Inalienable
- Not able to be taken or given away.
- Indiscriminate
- Not marked by carful distinctions; haphazard.
- Intercede
- To act or plead on another's behalf; to try to smooth the differences between two parties.
- Malign
- To say negative and unfair things; slander.
- Perpetrate
- To commit as a crime or another antisoical act.
- Rancor
- A deep long-held feeling of hattred or bitterness.
- Accolade
- An expression of approval or respect for special merit; an award.
- Adamant
- Not yeilding; firm
- Adulate
- To flatter or idolize
- Assiduous
- Diligent and persistent.
- Chary
- Exercising caution; hesitant.
- Endow
- Provide with a quality thing or a gift of money.
- Ephemeral
- Lasting a very short time.
- Ingratiate
- To work to gain the favor of someone.
- Pantheon
- A group of people held in high esteem for their great achievements.
- Tutelage
- Protection or guardianship.
- Acrimony
- Bitterness of temper and manner or hostility.
- Ambivalent
- Having mixed feelings about something or someone.
- Cessation
- A stopping either final or temporary.
- Emaciated
- Very thin or wasted away ususally due to lack of nourishment; scrawny.
- Enclave
- A region or community enclosed within a larger territory.
- Exacerbate
- To make more sever, bitter, to produce.
- Inexorable
- Not to be persuaded, stopped, or move by plea; relentless.
- Poignant
- Painfully moving,affectingm or touching.
- Proselytize
- To convent someone to a faith, belief, or cause.
- Ameliorate
- To make better; improve.
- Berate
- To citicize vigorously.
- Circumvent
- To avoid through craftiness
- Compunction
- A feeling of unseasiness or anxiey caused by gilt.
- Condone
- To overlook without punishment
- Diminutive
- Very small
- Euphemism
- A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive
- Infirmity
- Physical or mental weakness
- Repast
- Food and drink; meal
- Servitude
- A lack of freedom; forced labor.
- Castigate
- To punish by criticizing sharply; to berate.
- Colloquial
- Characterized by informal language.
- Epitaph
- The words craved on a tombstone in memoery of the deceased.
- Inter
- To put in a grave; to bury
- Lacerate
- To tear or cut roughly.
- Largesse
- Act of giving generously; gift
- Omnivorous
- Easting all kinds of food both animal and vegetable
- Permeate
- To spread throughout; pass through
- Rendition
- An interpretation or trnaslation; performance.
- Resurgence
- A rising again to life, use, acceptance, or prominence, revival
- Stipend
- Regular and fixed amount of pay
- Subservient
- Serving or acting in a lower manner.
- Beset
- Sourround or attack repeatedly.
- Cede
- To give up or transfer by a formal agreement
- Circuitous
- Roundabout; indirect
- Desultory
- Proceeding or carried out in an aimless way.
- Galvanize
- To excite or arouse action.
- Implement
- A tool or instrument
- Vanguard
- Leading or forward position in a movement
- Constrain
- Confine or hold back by force or necessity.
- Flotilla
- Fleet of boats or small ships
- Gossamer
- Thin sheer fabric or fine filmu substance
- Incur
- To bring upon oneself something undesirable
- Ligquidate
-
convert into money
to get rid of - Misnomer
- A name that does not fit.
- Onerous
- Oppressive
- Pnademonium
- State of great confusion or uproar.
- Axiom
- Statement that requires no proof because its truth is obvious.
- Churlish
- Lacking good manners.
- Derivative
- Something that grows out of or result from an earlier form or condition.
- Disparage
- To critizine in a negative manner.
- Dissipate
- To break up and spread out thinly as to disappear.
- Esoteric
- Not generally known or understood - familiar to only a small number of people.
- Vagary
- Departure from the normal whim or unpredictable action.
- Agrarian
- Having to do with farming
- Burgeon
-
To grow and expand rapidly
Flourish - Cataclysm
- Sudden and violent change
- Denigrate
- Attack the reputation of.
- Grandiloquent
- Using lofty or pompous speech or expression.
- Manifold
- Having many different kinds, forms, and parts.
- Palatable
- Pleasing to the sense of taste.
- Panacea
- Cure-all.
- Scourge
- Social evil
- Aphorism
- Short statement of truth
- Catharsis
- Realeasing of the emotions often through the arts that brings about the spiritual renewal or relieving of tension.
- Cohort
-
A group that is moving or working together
One who assists another especially in a criminal activity. - Culpable
- Dserving blame or censure.
- Diabolical
- Evil or wicked.
- Gibe
- Utter taunting, sarcastic words.
- Scurrilous
- Vulgar; coarsely abusive.
- Belie
- To give false impression of
- Carnage
- Slaughter.
- Eradicate
- To get rid of
- Flout
- To ignore in a disrespectful way
- Foment
- To stir up, to rouse, to instigate.
- Insurrection
- Rebellion
- Mitigate
- To make or become less serious or severe
- Pretext
- An effort to conceal the real intention or state of affairs.
- Somnolent
- Tending to cause sleepiness
- Stalwart
- Strong, sturdy.
- Aberration
- Departure from the norm; flaw or defect
- Antiquated
- Out of date; growing old.
- Certitude
- State of being certain of the truth of something
- Juncture
- Joining or coming together; connection occurs.
- Maelstorm
- Large and violent whirlpool
- Pillory
- To expose to public scorn or contempt
- Proliferate
- To grow, expand,multiplying at a rapid rate.
- Abominate
- To hate or loathe
- Animosity
- Intense will
- Beleaguer
- Surround with an army
- Constituent
- One of the parts that makes up a whole.
- Iniquitous
- Unjust; wicked
- inure
- To adjust to and accept unpleasent conditions
- Inveigh
- To complain or protest strongly
- Scathing
- Harshly critical
- Transpire
- To become apparent; come to light.
- Banal
- Lacking freshness trite
- Bemuse
- To confuse or bewilder
- Cognizant
- Fully aware; taking notice
- Conundrum
-
Riddle whose answer is a play on words.
Puzzle or problem that is difficult to solve - Evanescent
- Short-lived
- Grandiose
- Impressive because of large size or scope.
- Intransigent
- Refusing to compromise or change one's position on an issue.
- Panache
- Dahs or flamboyance in style or action.
- Picayune
- Petty concern
- Promontory
- High point of land that juts out into water.
- Aggregate
- sum total
- Allocate
- Set aside for a specidic puropse
- Decorum
- Suitable, proper behavior or speech.
- Defunct
- No longer existing or functioning.
- Halcyon
- Calm,peacful, and happy.
- Hyperbole
- Extravagant exaggeration
- Ruminate
- Ponder
- Temerity
- Reckless boldness without regard to danger or opposition.
- Winnow
- Seperate and remove what is undesirable and leav what is desirable
- August
- Inspiring great respect or admiration;noble
- Auspices
- Protection, support, or guidance.
- Cavil
- To criticize unimportant things; quibble
- Curator
- A person in charge of an exhibition; overseer of a museum or library.
- Gamut
- Entire range of something
- Ineffable
- Incapable of being expressed in words.
- Mellifluous
- Sweetly flowing; pleasent to the ear.
- Mien
- Person's manner or expression.
- Amenable
- willing to take advice
- Dearth
- Shortage
- Demoralize
- Destory the morals of someone.
- Ebullient
- Bubbling with enthusiasm or hight spirits.
- Fatuous
- Foolish
- Harbinger
- Person or thing that is a symbol of what is to come.
- Incumbent
- One who occupies an office or position.
- Neophyte
- A beginner.
- Preogrative
- Speical right limited to a person, group or office; privilege
- Accost
- Approach and speak to in an aggressive way.
- Avarice
- Greed for wealth.
- Bilk
- Cheat out of what is due.
- Consummate
- Extremely skilled; perfect
- Credulous
- Willing to believe things with only slight or no evidence.
- Fortuitous
- Happening by lucky chance; accidental
- Hypothetical
- Based on something that is not actual but assumed or supposed.
- Incoherent
- Not connected;rambling
- Pleasantry
- An agreeable, causal remark
- Qualm
- Feeling of uneasiness as to weather what one is doing is right or wise; a misgiving