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mentor
(MEN-tor) -
(n) wise advisor
Without a mentor, many people fail in their first job. -
mundane
(mun-DANE) -
(adj) typical of the ordinary (also: wordly as opposed to spiritual)
She is more concerned with the mundane things of life and rarely thinks too deeply. -
bizarre
(bih-ZAR) -
(adj) strikingly unusual
His bizarre sense of fashion always caught someone's attention. -
charlatan
(SHARLA-tin) -
(n) fake
Some teachers pretend to be very knowledgeable about their subjects, but too often they are just charlatans who waste good students' time. -
discerning
(di-CERN-ing) -
(adj) perceptive; showing insight and judgment
She showed a very discerning appreciation of the writer's style. -
deleterious
(dela-TEARY-us) -
(adj) harmful
The deleterious effects of the tsunami will plague the island for years to come. -
morose
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(adj) ill-humored, sullen
Her personality is too morose for her to be a successful kindergarten teacher. -
aberration
(aba-RAY-shin) -
(n) something different from the normal or from the usual
The normally ultra-smooth surfaces of the plane now had so many aberrations that the plane could not reach top speed anymore. -
chicanery
(shi-CANE-ery) -
(n) trickery or fraud
Stop the chicanery and give me a straight forward answer to my questions. -
cognition
(cog-NISH-un) -
(n) mental process by which knowledge is acquired
He had so many cognition deficits that we feared he would never be able to live alone. -
tedious
(TEED-ee-us) -
(adj) boring, tiring
The work is so tedious that it drives me insane whenever I have to do it. -
didactic
(die-DAK-tic) -
(adj) instructional, teaching
It's the didactic part of college that I enjoy; not the drinking and partying. -
prodigious
(pro-DIGH-us) -
(adj) enormous (also, extraordinary)
With one last prodigious effort, he finally made it over the top of the wall. -
denotation
(DEE-no-TAY-shin) -
(n) most direct meaning of a word; something that gives direction or meaning
Without a more direct denotaion of your expectations, I'm afraid that I'm going to get more and more lost trying to make sense of this project. - lexicon
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(n) vocabulary
He came to high school with a lexicon so deep that he never had any problem writing quick, but clear and in-depth, answers to essay questions -
ignominy
(IG-NO-miny) -
(n) great personal dishonor or humiliation
The ignominy of having been caught cheating on the SATs left him labeled as a sleaze through the rest of his high school years. - arcane
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(adj) known only by a few; obscure
He knew so may arcane facts that many felt him to be a cinch to win the county Knowledge Bowl competition. -
gargantuan
(gar-GAN-chew-in) -
(adj) huge
King Kong was some gargantuan movie gorilla. - eccentric
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(adj) odd; deviating from the normal
Scientists, to the uneducated public, sometimes have a reputation of being eccentric weirdoes who are dangerous to society. - pedestrian
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(adj) ordinary; commonplace
(n) someone who is walking
He has nothing but grossly pedestrian interests --- nothing more than sleeping, eating, watching TV, and partying. - daunting
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(adj) intimidating; discouraging, frightening
After its setback at Pearl Harbor in Dccember 1941, the U.S. Navy had a rather daunting task ahead --- the need to utterly defeat the powerful Japanese Navy. -
explicit
(EX-pli-sit) -
(adj) very clear; definite
Without explicit directions as to methodology, it is often impossible to accurately recreate scientific experiments and confirm results. -
saga
(SAH-ga) -
(n) prose narrative
It was in the Norse and British sagas from about 1500 years ago that the name of the hero Wade was first mentioned --- he was a giant who lived by the sea.