wordly wise 16-20
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- public or institutional records
- archives
- item of property that can be moved
- chattel
- roomy, plenty of space
- commodious
- large disasterous fire
- conflagration
- neglect, oblivion, transition
- limbo
- line of descent:ancestry
- lineage
- indifferent, spiritless, no interest
- listless
- important city
- metropolis
- done in routine
- perfunctory
- like new
- pristine
- loosley made, ready to collapse
- ramshackle
- to set apart
- sequester
- planning to undermine or overthrow
- subversive
- final destination
- terminus
- deadly, poisinous, harmful
- virulent
- exercising sole or complete control
- autocratic
- destroying chemical tissue, sarcastic sharp
- caustic
- impair strength
- debilitate
- marked by deception
- duplicitous
- representative sent on a special errand
- emissary
- happyness and good fortune
- felicitous
- direct, frank
- forthright
- being habitually without money, poor
- impecunious
- unhealthy yellow appearance
- jaundiced
- serving merely for money, greedy
- mercenary
- well known for particular trait
- notorious
- eject from position, drive out
- oust
- excessively sparing or frugal, penurious
- parsimonious
- negative, unpleasant associations, belittling
- pejorative
- general principle
- precept
- lacking what is wanted/needed
- bereft
- standared rule which something is criticized
- criterion
- to ridicule
- deride
- offensive boldness, audacity
- effrontery
- to advocate or embrace an idea
- espouse
- falsness, believing false values
- hypocrisy
- about to occur
- impending
- enraged, filled with wrath
- incensed
- relevant
- pertinent
- to proclaim or make known
- promulgate
- to forbid/prohibit
- proscribe
- to correct a wrong
- redress
- form of rule or government
- regime
- recompense, payment/punishment for wrong doing
- retribution
- to veryify or confirm evidence
- substantiate
- protection/sponsorship
- aegis
- showy, trinket
- bauble
- agreeable/willing to please
- complaisant
- to join together to unite
- consolidate
- act of plundering or destroying
- depredation
- sudden understanding
- epiphany
- waiting period or temporary ban
- moatorium
- hanging loosely
- pendulous
- to be a sign of future events
- portend
- considared with practical solutions
- pragmatic
- delay punishment
- reprieve
- extremely loud
- stentorian
- condition of holding property
- tenure
- carried out by one or two parties rather than in concert with others
- unilateral
- capable of living
- viable
- able to use both hands
- ambidextrous
- dislike
- antipathy
- hartful, injurious
- deleterious
- criticize severly barate
- excoriate
- to estimate or infer by projecting from or expanding upon known information
- extrapolate
- grim and ghastly
- grisly
- peculiar characteristic, habit or manner
- idiosyncrasy
- to assign blame or credit
- impute
- lacking judgment or skill
- maladroit
- to deny or refute the existence or truth of
- negate
- no longer in fashion
- passe
- teacher of youth
- pedagogue
- the greater part, superiority in size
- preponderance
- to put forward for consideration to propose
- propound
- the way a person stands
- stance