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- ABASE
- TO HUMBLE OR DISGRACE
- ABJURE
- PROMISE OR SWEAR TO GIVE UP
- ABNEGATE
- TO DENY OR RENOUNCE
- ABROGATE
- TO REPEAL, AS IN A LAW; TO ANNUL SOMETHING THROUGH AN AUTHORITATIVEACT
- ADJURATION
- SOLEMN URGING ”Her adjuration to tell the truth did not change thewitnesses' testimony.”
- ADJUTANT
- STAFF OFFICER ASSISTING THE COMMANDER; ASSISTANT ”Though hedelegated many tasks to his chief adjutant, Somerset, Somerset wasin no doubt as to who made all major decisions.”
- ADVENTITIOUS
- ACCIDENTAL, CASUAL ”He found this adventitious meeting with hisfriend extremely fortunate.”
- AFFIDAVIT
- WRITTEN STATEMENT MADE UNDER OATH
- AGGRIEVE
- TO AFFLICT OR DISTRESS
- ANIMADVERSION
- CRITICAL REMARK ”He resented the animadversions of his critics,particularly because he realized they were true.”
- ARRAIGN
- CHARGE IN COURT; INDICT
- ARROGATE
- TO ASSUME, OR CLAIM AS ONE'S OWN; TO TAKE OVER WITHOUT DUE CAUSE..“to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions toright or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.”
- ASCENDANCY
- CONTROLLING INFLUENCE “President Marcos failed to maintain hisascendency over Philippines"
- ASCETIC
- PRACTICING SELF-DENIAL; AUSTERE
- BALK
- FOILTo stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump. To refuse obstinately or abruptly: She balked at the very idea ofcompromise.
- BARRISTER
- COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
- BELEAGUER
- TO HARASS, PLAGUE
- BENIGHTED
- UNENLIGHTENED
- BETOKEN
- TO INDICATE, SIGNIFY, GIVE EVIDENCE OF
- BILLET
- BOARD AND LODGING FOR TROOPS
- BILK
- FRUSTRATE OR DISAPPOINT; TO DECEIVE OR DEFRAUD..
- BLOWHARD
- TALKATIVE BOASTER
- BLUSTER
- BOAST OR MAKE THREATS LOUDLY
- BROCADE
- RICH, FIGURED FABRIC
- BROMIDE
- A DULL PERSON OR IDEA
- BURNISH
- TO POLISH
- CADGE
- TO BEG, TO GET BY BEGGIN
- CANARD
- UNFOUNDED RUMOR OR LIE
- CANVASS
- DISCUSS THOROUGHLY; SORT OF TOUTING
- CATECHISM
- BOOK FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION; INSTRUCTION BY QUESTION AND ANSWER
- CODICIL
- SUPPLEMENT TO THE BODY OF A WILL
- COFFER
- STRONGBOX, CHEST FOR MONEY
- COMITY
- COURTESY; CIVILITY “A spirit of comity should exist among nations.”
- COMPENSATORY
- MAKING UP FOR; REPAYING
- CONSEQUENTIAL
- POMPOUS, SELF IMPORTANT
- CONSTRUE
- TO EXPLAIN OR INTERPRET
- CONTENTIOUS
- ARGUEMENTATIVE, CAUSING CONTROVERSY
- CONTUMACIOUS
- DISOBEDIENT; RESISTING AUTHORITY ”The contumacious mob shouteddefiantly at the police.”
- COZEN
- TO DECEIVE. BEGUILE, HOODWINK
- CULL
- PICK OUT; REJECT ”Every month the farmer culls the nonplaying hensand sells them to the local butcher.”
- CULVERT
- ARTIFICIAL CHANNEL FOR WATER
- CURMUDGEON
- CRANKY PERSON
- DEBAUCH
- TO CORRUPT, SEDUCE FROM VIRTUE OR DUTY, INDULGE
- DEMAGOGUE
- SOMEONE WHO APPEALS TO THE PREJUDICES AND EMOTIONS OF THE PEOPLE INAN ATTEMPT TO GAIN POWER.. “A consummate demagogue, [Joseph]McCarthy played upon cold war emotions and made charges sofantastic that frightened people believed the worst.”
- DEMUR
- TO QUESTION OR OPPOSE
- DESUETUDE
- CESSATION OF USE; DISUSE
- DENIGRATE
- TO SULLY, BELITTLE, DEFAME
- DETRACTION
- SLANDERING, VERBAL ATTACK, ASPERSION
- DISPARAGE
- TO BELITTLE
- DISPORT
- AMUSE ”The popularity of Florida as a winter resort is constantlyincreasing; each year, thousands more disport themselves at Miamiand Palm Beach.”
- DISSIPATE
- TO SCATTER, PURSUE PLEASURE TO EXCESS
- DISSOLUTION
- DISINTEGRATION, LOOSENESS IN MORALS
- DISTAFF
- THE FEMALE BRANCH OF A FAMILY (OPP.= AGNATE), A DEVICE TO SPIN YARN
- DISTRAIT
- ABSENTMINDED, DISTRACTED
- DOCKET
-
Calender of court cases.
A brief entry of the court proceedings.
The book containing such entries.
A summary of a document
A list of things to be done.
directions for assembling or operating. - DOUGHTY
- COURAGEOUS
- DUDGEON
- ANGRY INDIGNATION “Higgins was so frustrated by such a basic errorthat he stormed out of the arena for the mid-session interval inhigh dudgeon.”
- DYSPEPTIC
- SUFFERING FROM INDIGESTION
- ECUMENICAL
- ENCOMPASSING A WIDE VARIETY OF FAITHS OR BELIEFS, OFTEN IN REFERENCETO RELIGION.. (AFFECTED OR EXAGGERATED EARNESTNESS, ESPECIALLY INCHOICE AND USE OF LANGUAGE.)
- EDACIOUS
- VORACIOUS, DEVOURING devouring or craving food in great quantities;"edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"
- EFFECTUAL
- EFFICIENT
- EFFETE
-
DEPLETED OF VITALITY
MARKED BY SELF-INDULGENCE,TRIVIALITY, OR DECADENCE, OVERREFINED; EFFEMINATE. - ELEEMOSYNARY
- PERTAINING TO CHARITY; CHARITABLE.
- ENJOIN
- TO URGE OREDER OR COMMAND, FORBID OR PROHIBIT AS BY COURT ORDER
- ENORMITY
- EXCESSIVE WICKEDNESS
- EPIGRAPH
- QUOTE AT THE BIGINNING OF A LITERARY WORK
- EQUABLE
- STEADY, REGULAR
- EQUITY
- FAIRNESS OR EQUALITY
- ESCHEW
- AVOID
- ESURIENT
- HUNGRY, GREEDY
- ETIOLOGY
- THE STUDY OF CAUSES
- EUPHONY
- PLEASANT HARMONIOUS SOUND
- EVINCE
- TO SHOW CLEARLY
- EXECRABLE
- VERY BAD
- EXIGUOUS
- SMALL, MINUTE
- EXPATIATE
- TO ENLARGE OR ELABORATE UPON SOMETHING; TO GO ON IN GREAT DETAIL..“Every day he would expatiate in great detail on the quality of thesandwiches”
- EXPLODE
- TO DEBUNK, DISPROVE
- EXTRICABLE
- THAT CAN BE FREED
- BUNGLER
- To work or act ineptly or inefficiently
- PHARISICAL
- HYPOCRITICALLY SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND CONDEMNATORY, SANCTIMONIOUS
- PITTANCE
- MEAGER AMOUNT OR WAGE
- PLANGENT
- POUNDING, THUNDERING, RESOUNDING, WAILING SOUND
- PLEBIAN
- CRUDE, LOWER-CLASS, VULGAR
- PONDEROUS
- Having great weight. Unwieldy from weight or bulk. Lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull: a ponderous speech.
- PONTIFICATE
- TO SPEAK IN A PRETENTIOUS MANNER
- PREDICATE
- TO FOUND OR BASE ON
- PRESTIDIGITATION
- SLEIGHT OF HAND
- PRIVATION
- LACK OF USUAL NECESSETIES OR COMFORTS
- PROPITIOUS
- AUSPICIOUS, PRESENTING FAVORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES “the clearing of the sky was a propitious omen that the storm had passed”
- PROPOUND
- TO OFFER FOR CONSIDERATION; TO EXHIBIT (PROPOUND AN ARGUMENT)
- PROVISIONAL
- OF THE PRESENT TIME ONLY
- PRUNE
- SILLY PERSON
- PURBLIND
- BEING UNABLE TO SEE
- QUALIFY
- TO LIMIT “he qualified the harshness of his criticisms by smiling as he said them”
- QUIXOTIC
- GENEROUS, UNSELFISH
- QUIZZICAL
- BANTERING, COMICAL, HUMOROUSLY SERIOUS
- PROGENITOR
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A direct ancestor.
An originator of a line of descent; a precursor.
An originator; (ex: of the new music)