Vocab Words 50-100
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- Eccentricity
- n. Abnormal, established.
- Dissemble
- v. To disguise or conceal behind false appearance.
- Faction
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n. A group, a portion or an area.
From Latin - To do. - Flux
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n. Flow or flowing
From Middle English - To flow
Dysentary - "The Flux" - Foray
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n. A purposeful trip.
From Middle English - Plunder, to forage - Dipsomaniac
- n. An insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages.
- Hedonism
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n. Pursuit or devotion to pleasure (ones senses)
Greek->toga parties->drunk->pleasure - Foppish
- adj. Dandified, outlandish, over the top, effeminate, overdone.
- Decadence
- n. Immoral behavior.
- Definitive
- adj. Decisive, unconditional.
- Iconoclastic
- adj. Image breaking, destroying religious figures.
- Hybrid
- n. Something of mixed origin or composition.
- Histrionic
- adj. Excessively dramatic or emotional, affected
- Gullible
- adj. Easily deceived
- Gourmet
- n. A connoisseur of fine foods & drinks.
- Fester
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v. To undergo decay, rot. To generate pus. Or
To brew (emotions) - Fidelity
- n. Faithfulness.
- Flotilla
- n. A small fleet of ships.
- Disinterested
- adj. Not interested, indifferent, having lost interest.
- Devious
- adj. Not straightforward/
- Ennui
- n. Listlessness resulting from bordom or dissatisfaction.
- Deprecatory
- adj. Expressing disapproval or criticism.
- Hiatus
- n. A gap/break in time.
- Germane
- adj. Being both pertinant and fitting.
- Dogmatic
- adj. Characterized by arrogant assertion of unproveable principles
- Dour
- adj. Silently ill humored, gloomy, stern or harsh
- Dilettante
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n. A lover of fine arts
adj. Superficial, amatuerish - Desultory
- adj. Disconnected, jumping from one thing to another.
- Dowdy
- adj. Lacking stylishness or neatness
- Evince
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V. To manifest, to demonstrate clearly, to show.
From Latin - Intense, To Concur - Furtive
- adj. Characterized by stealth, shifty, sneaky
- Effigy
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n. A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group.
-A likeness of image. - Encumber
- v. To put a heavy load on, burden.
- Elucidate
- v. To make clear or to clarify.
- Distraught
- adj. Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict.
- Enthrall
- v. To captivate, to hold spellbound, to be caught up, hypnotized.
- Entity
- n. The fact of existence, being, something that exists, an individual
- Facet
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n. One of numerous aspects of a subject
Jewels have facets. - Evoke
- v. To summon or call forth, to bring something to the surfce.
- Extricate
- v. To untangle, to remove oneself from ones perplexities.
- Equable
- adj. Equal,uniform or level, steady.
- Facetious
- adj. Jocose, humorous, joking at an inappropriate time with a sarcastic tone.
- Faux Pas
- n. A social blunder
- Gregarious
- adj. Sociable
- Gambol
- v. To frolic
- Forte
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n. Something in which a person excels in.
Fortus - Strong - Cynic
- n. One with little faith in humanity
- Cryptic
- adj. Having to do with a cult, shady.
- Hirsute
- adj. Hairy.
- Cull
- v. To cut away from, to remove something from a group.
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Inveigle - v. To entice, to persuade, to lure.
- Peculate
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v. To take (money) for one's own use in validation of trust.
To steal money - Lithe
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adj. Flexible, supple, bending with ease
Often used to describe dancers. - Permeate
- v. To pass through the openings, to spread of flow throughout.
- Ostentatious
- adj. Boastful, showy, obnoxious
- Pensive
- adj. Deeply dreamily thoughtful.
- Maelstrom
- n. A violent or turblulent situation.
- Languid
- adj. Lacking vigor, listless, slow.
- Maim
- v. To disfigure, disable or harm. (in the body)
- Jeopardy
- n. Risk of loss or injury, danger.
- Mollify
- v. To appease, reduce severity
- Misnomer
- n. Name or term wrongly
- Mete
- v. To measure
- Invidious
- adj. Likely to excite resentment or indignation
- Inane
- adj. One that lacks sense or substance.
- Mercantile
- adj. Or or relating to merchants or trade.
- Mentor
- n. A wise trusted teacher or counselor.
- Mendacious
- adj. Lying untruthful, false
- Meander
- v. To follow or move about aimlessly.
- Moot
- adj. Debateable, undecided, irrelevant.
- Ineffable
- adj. Unspeakable, indescribable
- Indict
- v. To accuse of wrong doing.
- Incongruity
- n. The quality of disagreeing.
- Ignoble
- adj. Not noble in quality, character, purpose, base or mean.
- Inept
- adj. Not apt or fitting.
- Impale
- v. Tp pierce with a sharp stake or point, to enclose or surround.
- Pechant
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n. A definate or desparate liking.
"The pregnant woman had a penchant for icecream and pickles." - Malleable
- adj. Capable of being shaped or formed, easily influenced.
- Palpitate
- v. To throb, shiver, tremble or shake.
- Ostensible
- adj. Shown, apparent, declared.
- Perversion
- n. A sexual practice or act considered abnormal.
- Patent
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n. A grant made for the sole right to use and sell an invention for a set period of time.
Open (Something that's open) - Liaison
- n. A close relationship, connection or link.
- Lesion
- n. Injury to an organ, damage, cut
- Integrity
- n. The state of being unimpaired, high morals, stead fast.
- Instigate
- v. To provoke, urge on.
- Ingratiate
- v. To bring oneself into the favor of good graces of another.
- Interment
- n. The ritual of burying
- Impromptu
- adj. With little or no preparation
- Novice
- n. A beginner
- Nostaligia
- n. A bittersweet longing for things, persons or situations of the past.
- Noisome
- adj. Offensive to the point of arousing disgust.
- Myriad
- n. An indefinitely great number.
- Obliterate
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v. To do away with completely.
To abolish - Obdurate
- adj. Stubborn, hardend against persuasion
- Omnivorous
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adj. Eating both animal and vegetable foods.
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Taking in everything available w/the mind. - Odious
- adj. Hateful, intense displeasure.
- Impecunious
- adj. Lacking money, penniless.
- Kiosk
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n. Stall, cubicle.
Kiosks sell magazines, candy, cigarettes and drinks in a small stall or stand. - Perpetrate
- v. To be responsible for or guilty of.
- Jurisprudence
- n. The philosophy or science of law.
- Juxtapose
- v. To place side by side for comparison.
- Kinetic
- adj. Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
- Lechery
- n. Excessive self indulgence in sexual activity, lewdness.
- Lexicographer
- n. One who writes, compiles or edits a dictionary.
- Mandate
- n. An authoritative command or instruction.
- Marsupial
- n. A mammal with a pouch(Non-placental)
- Melange
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n. A mixture of things that dont normally go together.
(Oil & Water) - Moor
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n. A broad area of open land that is poorly drained with patches of peat bog...
-To fix in place - Millenium
- n. A span of a thousand years.
- Nautical
- adj. Relating to or involving ships.
- Obtreperous
- adj. Noisily and stubbornly defiant.
- Opus
- n. A creative work, especially a musical composition.
- Ornithology
- n. The branch of zoology that studies birds.
- Palliation
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v. To make (an offence or crime) seem less serious or severe.
To extenuate. - Pathological
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adj. Of, relating to or manifesting behavior that is habitual and compulsive.
"A pathological liar." - Piebald
- adj. Spotted or patched.
- Plausible
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adj. Giving a deceptive impression of truth or reliability.
Valid, probable. - Plebiscite
- n. A vote in which a population excercises the right of national self-determination.
- Preempt
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v. To seize for oneself beofore others.
To prevent something. - Prehensile
- adj. Greedy, having keen intellect, insightful. Prehensile tails - Wrap around.
- Prestige
- n. The level of respect at which one is regarded by others.
- Primogeniture
- n. The state of being the first born eldest child of the same parents.
- Proselytize
- v. To induce someone to convery to ones own religious faith.
- Prototype
- n. An original type or form serving as a basis or standard
- Rampart
- n. A means of protection or defense.
- Recherche
- adj. Uncommon, rare, forced.
- Refurbish
- v. To clean, make fresh or bright again, renovate.
- Rendition
- n. An interpretation of a musical or dramatic piece.
- Residue
- n. The remainder of something after the removal of parts.