Word of the Day 2005-2006 - Tefft
Terms
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- genre
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Distinctive type or category of literary or musical composition
Kind; sort - infer
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to derive as a conclusion of facts or premises
guess; hint; suggest - saunter
- move in a leisurely manner, stroll
- accountable
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responsible for giving an account of ones acts
answerable, explainable - malinger
- to pretend incapacity (illness) so as to avoid work or duty
- ponder
- to consider carefully
- inept
- totally without skill or approrpriateness
- sullen
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silent because of bad humor or anger
gloomy,dismal - minimum
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the least quality or value permissible
the least of a set of numbers
the lowest degree or amount recorded - alliteration
- the repetition of sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words
- generalize
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to make general
give a general form
draw a general conclusion - compulsion
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an act of compelling
an irresistible impulse to do something - evolve
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to develop gradually
to rise to a higher level - excerpt
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a passage taken from a book, article, etc.
to take such a passage; to quote - expository
- an explaining of meaning or purpose of something
- dubiously
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causing doubt, uncertain
feeling doubt, undecided
of questionable value - detriment
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injury or damage
hurt - corporeal
- having, consisting of, or relating to physical material body
- allusion
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the act of alluding or hinting
an implied or indirect reference - personification
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1)when a lifeless object is spoken of as if alive
2)to give a human characteristic to something - indignant
- filled with anger caused by something unjust or mean
- resilience
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1)the ability of the body to rebound, recoil, or resume its original shape after being bent
2)the ability to recover or adjust to misfortune or change - badger
- to harass persistently
- reiterate
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1)to say over or do over repeatedly
2)repeat - fragment
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1)a part broken off, detached or incomplete
2)a sentence fragment - peril
- exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed or lost
- accentuate
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1)to give prominence to: emphasize or intensify
2)to pronounce with stress or accent - bizarre
- very strange or odd
- chronology
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1)the order or sequence of events
2)a list or table of events analyzed in order of occurence - divulge
- know, to tell or reveal
- enmity
- positive, active and typically mutual hatred or ill will
- hoodwink
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1)blindfold
2)deceive, cheat - empathy
- the capacity for experiencing as one's own the feelings of another
- hiatus
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1) gap in space and time
2) a break where something is missing - exposition
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1)an explaining of the meaning or purpose of something
2) a competition that explains something - homonym
- one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning
- stolid
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1) having or expressing little or no sensibility
2) not easily excited, unemotional - omninious
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1) being or showing an omen
2) fortelling evil - fallible
- liable to error
- precarious
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1) dependent upon certian premises
2) dependent on chance circumstances
3) lack of security that threatens danger - fluent
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1) capable of flowing
2) ready or easy in speech, smooth and rapid - voracious
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1) greedy in eating, ravinous
2) excessively eager, insatiable - permeate
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1) to pass through the pores or small openings
2) to spread throughout, PERVADE - zeal
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1) eagerness and ardent interest in doing something
2) enthusiasm and pursuit of cause sentence - capricious
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1) to change suddenly
2) fickle, changeable - sustenance
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1) means if support or subsistence
2) act of sustaining
3) food, nourishment - idiom
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1) the language peculiar to a group
2) an expression that must be learned as a whole to be understood