ENGLISH: Vocabulary #10
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- ADVERSARY: (n)
- An opponent; an enemy
- AUSPICIOUS: (adj)
- (1)Attended by favorable circumstances; propituous. (2)Successful; Prosperous.
- CIRCUMSPECT:(adj)
- Headful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent.
- DIDACTIC: (adj)
- (1)Intended to instruct. (2)Morally instructive. (3)Inclined to teach or moralize ecessively.
- ESCHEW: (v)
- To avoid; shun
- GALLEON: (n)
- A large three-mastered sailing ship with a square rig and usually two or more decks, used from the 15th to the 17th century especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.
- IMPECUNIOUS: (adj)
- Lacking money; penniless
- JADED: (v)
- To wear out, as by overuse or overindulgence; To become weary or spiritless.
- MENDICANT: (n)
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(1)Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
(2)A begger. - OMNISCIENT: (adj)
- Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
- POLYGLOT: (n)
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(1)A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
(2)A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.
(3)A mixture or confusion of languages. - RAZE: (n)
- To demolish.
- SCINTILLATE: (v)
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(1)To throw off sparks; flash.
(2)To sparkle or shine. See Synonyms at flash.
(3)To be animated and brilliant: dinner conversation that scintillated. - SURFEIT: (v)
- To feed or supply to fullness; to excess
- UNTENABLE: (adj)
- (1) something impossible to attend or maintain. (2)unconquerable.