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- euro
- (n) monetary unit of the European Union
- thermodynamics
- (n) the science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy
- deleterious
- (adj) harmful, noxious
- loquacious
- (adj) talkative or chatty
- lexicon
- (n) a dictionary
- pecuniary
- (adj) relating to money
- reciprocal
- (adj) an action or feeling done or felt by two people toward each other
- vehement
- (adj) showing strong feeling, passionate, forceful, or intense
- oligarchy
- (n) government controlled by a few, usually the wealthy
- jejune
- (adj) empty or void of substance
- nihilism
- (n) extreme skepticism, maintaining that nothing has a real existence, the rejection of all moral principles
- abrogate
- (v) to repeal or abolish
- soliloquy
- (n) a speech by a character to himself to reveal his thoughts to the audience
- nanotechnology
- (n) the science of machines that are very small
- laissez faire
- (adj) economic term which refers to an economy in which the government allows the free markets to make the decisions
- suffragist
- (n) a person who promotes the right to vote
- circumnavigate
- (v) to travel completely around something
- polymer
- a long molecule consisting of a chain of identical parts
- antebellum
- (adj) a period prior to a war; in US, before Civil War
- unctuous
- (adj) oily, greasy, profusely and unpleasantly polite and insincerely earnest
- epiphany
- (n) an illuminating discovery resulting in personal feeling of elation
- abstemious
- (adj) abstaining from wine, sparing in diet, temperate
- vacuous
- (adj) showing a lack of thought or intelligence, vacant
- totalitarian
- (adj) a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control
- chromosome
- part of cell that contains DNA
- xenophobe
- (n) one who fears that which is unknown, one who fears people who are different from oneself, especially in the case of foreign people
- respiration
- (n) the process of inhaling and exhaling
- gamete
- (n) a reproductive cell that has only half the usual number of chromosomes (egg or sperm)
- ziggurat
- (n) a temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley
- enfranchise
- (v) to give the right to vote, to set free
- acumen
- (n) quickness of perception or discernment
- enervate
- (v) to reduce strength, debilitate
- kinetic
- (adj) relating to motion
- impeach
- (v) to hinder, to bring legal proceeding against a public official, saying they should be removed from office
- homogeneous
- (adj) uniform composition throughout
- quasar
- (n) starlike objects thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe
- infrastructure
- (n) underlying base or foundation in an organization or system
- Abjure
- (v) to renounce under oath, to shun
- moiety
- (n) half, a share or portion
- parameter
- (n) an arbitrary constant whose value characterized a member of a system
- kowtow
- (v) to kneel and bow low enough to touch one's forehead to the ground
- vortex
- (n) a whirlwind or whirlpool in the form of a spiral or column
- equinox
- (n) when the Sun is over the equator
- omnipotent
- (adj) all-powerful
- belie
- (v) to give a false representation of something
- parabola
- (n) the locus of a point equidistant from a point and a line
- hegemony
- (n) domination or authority over another, especially over a society or nation
- Bellicose
- (adj) warlike in nature, aggressive, hostile
- gerrymander
- (v) to divide a geographic area into voting districts to give unfair advantage to one party in an election
- notarize
- (v) to attest something as genuine
- facetious
- (adj) treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor
- fiduciary
- (n) one who holds a thing in trust for another, a trustee
- incognito
- (adj) in disguise
- nomenclature
- (n) a system or arrangement of names
- sanguine
- (adj) cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident, blood-red
- plasma
- (n) a component of blood that assists in clotting and injury repair
- obsequious
- (adj) fawning or subservient, excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions
- subjugate
- (v) to forcibly impose obedience or servitude
- inculcate
- (v) to teach by repeated instruction, to induce understanding or a particular sentiment in people
- mitosis
- (n) the division of a cell nucleus into two identical halves
- churlish
- (adj) rude, vulgar, difficult to work with
- feckless
- (adj) lacking purpose, without skill, ineffective
- wrought
- (adj) to bring to pass, having been worked or prepared somehow
- metamorphosis
- (n) a transformation
- hubris
- (n) excessive pride or arrogance
- reparation
- (n) a payment of time, effort, or money to undue past transgressions
- taxonomy
- (n) the science of finding, describing, classifying, and naming organisms
- photosynthesis
- (n) the process by which plants generate carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water using light as a source of energy
- auspicious
- (adj) a good omen, fortunate
- hemoglobin
- (n) substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen
- Lugubrious
- (adj) overly gloomy, mournful, or dismal
- Deciduous
- (adj) trees that lose their leaves in winter
- diffident
- (adj) lacking confidence, timid, bashful, modest
- chicanery
- (n) deception by use of trickery
- irony
- (n) a statement that means the opposite of what it says
- usurp
- (v) to seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means
- incontrovertible
- (adj) cannot be denied or disputed
- precipitous
- (adj) steep
- interpolate
- (v) to estimate value of a function between two points
- tempestuous
- (adj) relating to a tempest, stormy
- nonsectarian
- (adj) not restricted to one sect or school or party
- evanescent
- (adj) tending to vanish like vapor
- tautology
- (n) redundant use of words
- supercilious
- (adj) arrogantly superior, showing contemptuous indifference
- gauche
- (adj) awkward or lacking in social graces, bumbling
- yeoman
- (n) an official providing honorable service in a royal household, one that performs great and loyal service
- hypotenuse
- (n) the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle
- orthography
- (n) the study of correct spelling
- paradigm
- (n) an example serving as a model or pattern
- winnow
- (v) to free or separate grain or the like from chaff or refuse matter, usually using the air, to free of unwanted or inferior elements
- plagiarize
- (v) to use and pass off as one's own someone else's writing or speech
- fatuous
- (adj) obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly
- bowdlerize
- (v) to remove parts considered offensive
- Circumlocution
- (n) a roundabout way of speaking, using more words than necessary
- filibuster
- (n) long, irrelevant speeches to delay the making of a decision
- quotidian
- (adj) daily, common, ordinary, or trivial
- tectonic
- (adj) having a strong and widespread impact
- oxidize
- (v) to combine with oxygen
- recapitulate
- (v) to summarize or repeat in concise form
- expurgate
- (v) to edit out offensive, incorrect, or useless information, to cleanse, to purge