204204512 | Abjure | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | |
204204513 | Abrogate | revoke formally | |
204204514 | Abstemious | sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | |
204204515 | Acumen | shrewdness shown by keen insight | |
204204516 | Antebellum | belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | |
204204517 | Auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances | |
204204518 | Belie | represent falsely | |
204204519 | Bellicose | having or showing a ready disposition to fight | |
204204520 | Bowderlize | to remove offensive passages of a play or novel | |
204204521 | Chicanery | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | |
204204522 | Chromosome | a threadlike body in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | |
204204523 | Churlish | having a bad disposition | |
204204524 | Circumlocation | using many more words than necessary to make a point: evasiveness | |
204204525 | Circumnavigate | travel around, either by plane or ship | |
204204526 | Deciduous | (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season | |
204204527 | Deleterious | harmful to living things | |
204204528 | Diffident | lacking self-confidence | |
204204529 | Enervate | weaken mentally or morally | |
204204530 | Enfranchise | grant freedom to | |
204204531 | Enthymeme | Logical reasoning with one premise by the overall context of a passage | |
204204532 | Epiphany | a divine manifestation | |
204204533 | Equinox | (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic | |
204204534 | Euro | the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999) | |
204204535 | Evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor | |
204204536 | Expurgate | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | |
204204537 | Facetious | cleverly amusing in tone | |
204204538 | Fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish | |
204204539 | Feckless | generally incompetent and ineffectual | |
204204540 | Fiduciary | a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary | |
204204541 | Filibuster | a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | |
204204542 | Gamete | a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes | |
204204543 | Gauche | lacking social polish | |
204204544 | Gerrymander | an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | |
204204545 | Hegemony | the domination of one state over its allies | |
204204546 | Hemoglobin | a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color | |
204204547 | Hubris | overbearing pride or presumption | |
204204548 | Hypotenuse | the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle | |
204204549 | Impeach | bring an accusation against | |
204204550 | Incognito | without revealing one's identity | |
204204551 | Incontrovertible | necessarily or demonstrably true | |
204204552 | Inculcate | teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | |
204204553 | Infrastructure | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | |
204204554 | Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | |
204204555 | Interpolate | insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | |
204204556 | Jejune | displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | |
204204557 | Kinetic | supplying motive force | |
204204558 | Kowtow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | |
204204559 | Laissez-Faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | |
204204560 | Loquacious | full of trivial conversation | |
204204561 | Lugubrious | excessively mournful | |
204204562 | Metamorphosis | the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | |
204204563 | Mitosis | cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes | |
204204564 | Moiety | one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe | |
204204565 | Nanotechnology | the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules) | |
204204566 | Nihilism | complete denial of all established authority and institutions | |
204204567 | Nomenclature | a system of words used in a particular discipline | |
204204568 | Nonsectarian | not restricted to one sect or school or party | |
204204569 | Notarize | authenticate as a notary | |
204204570 | Obsequious | attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner | |
204204571 | Oligarchy | a political system governed by a few people | |
204204572 | Omnipotent | having unlimited power | |
204204573 | Orthography | a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols | |
204204574 | Oxidize | add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | |
204204575 | Parabola | a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | |
204204576 | Paradigm | a standard or typical example | |
204204577 | Parameter | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | |
204204578 | Pecuniary | relating to or involving money | |
204204579 | Photosynthesis | synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants) | |
204204580 | Plagiarize | take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech | |
204204581 | Plasma | colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended | |
204204582 | Polymer | a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers | |
204204583 | Precipitous | extremely steep | |
204204584 | Quasar | a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy | |
204204585 | Quotidian | found in the ordinary course of events | |
204204586 | Recapitulate | summarize briefly | |
204204587 | Reciprocal | (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2 | |
204204588 | Reparation | compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury | |
204204589 | Respiration | the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic moelcules | |
204204590 | Sanguine | inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | |
204204591 | Soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | |
204204592 | Speculation | a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | |
204204593 | Subjugate | put down by force or intimidation | |
204204594 | Suffragist | an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | |
204204595 | Syllogism | deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises | |
204204596 | Supercilious | expressive of contempt | |
204204597 | Tautology | useless repetition | |
204204598 | Taxonomy | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships | |
204204599 | Tectonic | pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust | |
204204600 | Tempestuous | (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | |
204204601 | Totalitarian | characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | |
204204602 | Unctuous | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | |
204204603 | Usurp | seize and take control without authority and possibly with force | |
204204604 | Usury | the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest | |
204204605 | Vacuous | devoid of significance or point | |
204204606 | Vehement | marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions | |
204204607 | Wrought | shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | |
204204608 | Winnow | treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated | |
204204609 | Xenophobe | person afraid of foreigners | |
204204610 | Yeoman | in former times was free and cultivated his own land | |
204204611 | Ziggurat | a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians |
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