8682661714 | Oratory | Noun: art of public speaking | 0 | |
8682663015 | Spurn | Verb: To reject w/ disdain | 1 | |
8682664169 | Eschew | Verb: To abstain or keep away from | 2 | |
8682667044 | Strident | Adj: Having a loud or annoying character | 3 | |
8682670138 | Vassal | Noun: Someone granted land in exchange for services | 4 | |
8682673901 | Foment | Verb: Instigate rebellion/ promote development of | 5 | |
8682675148 | Abhor | Verb: To regard with extreme disgust | 6 | |
8682677069 | Providence | Noun: the forseeing care and guidance of god | 7 | |
8682678465 | Quarry | Noun: An animal/object being hunted | 8 | |
8682680148 | Errant | Adj: Straying the proper course of standards | 9 | |
8682683933 | Elicit | Verb: To evoke a response in reaction to ones actions | 10 | |
8682686647 | Warrenlike | Adj: Like a maze | 11 | |
8682688294 | Solace | Noun: comfort, relief; Verb: to comfort, console | 12 | |
8682690275 | Ad Hoc | Adj: for or concerned with one specific purpose | 13 | |
8682693102 | Cursory | Adj: Done or made quickly | 14 | |
8682694168 | Congenial | Adj: Pleasing in nature or character | 15 | |
8682695541 | Effect (as a verb) | Verb: To cause | 16 | |
8682695543 | Prudence | Noun: act of being cautious with regard to the future | 17 | |
8682697367 | Usurpation | Noun: act of taking position of power by force or illegally | 18 | |
8682699685 | Despotism | Noun: Exercise of absolute power, especially in an oppressive way | 19 | |
8682701437 | Franchise | Noun: right to vote | 20 | |
8682702432 | Remuneration | Noun: money paid for work or service | 21 | |
8682703519 | Apostolic | Adj: Characteristic of apostle | 22 | |
8682706070 | Abject | Adj: Completely without dignity | 23 | |
8682707261 | Obdurate | Adj: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action | 24 | |
8682709963 | Bequeath | Verb: to give or leave by will | 25 | |
8682710857 | Fetters | Noun: A chain or shackle for the feet | 26 | |
8682711880 | Plaintive | Adj: Expressive of suffering or woe | 27 | |
8682713485 | Mirth | Noun: Amusement as expressed in laughter | 28 | |
8682714397 | Cleave | Verb: To be stuck or held together, resist separation | 29 | |
8682716241 | Equivocate | Verb: To use ambiguous language to avoid committing oneself | 30 | |
8682719718 | Titular | Adj: having a title belonging to an office w/o duties, responsibilities or power | 31 | |
8682721608 | Pontificate | Verb: Express one's opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic | 32 | |
8682724196 | Antithesis | Noun: A person or thing that is the direct opposite of something else | 33 | |
8682726285 | Pabulum | Noun: bland intellectual fare | 34 | |
8682728268 | Depose | Verb: to remove from a throne or other high position | 35 | |
8682729178 | Concur | verb: to agree | 36 | |
8682731871 | Indiscriminate | Adj: Done at random without careful judgement | 37 | |
8682732697 | Remonstrance | Noun: Act of pleading in protest, objection or disapproval | 38 | |
8682735933 | Repudiate | Verb: to reject as having no authority | 39 | |
8682736832 | Ledger | Noun: account book where business transactions are recorded | 40 | |
8682741748 | Neurotic | Noun: a person suffering from feeling of anixety and obsessive thoughts | 41 | |
8682743751 | Evade | Verb: to escape or avoid, esp. by trickery | 42 | |
8682744899 | Eccentric | Adj: Unconventional and strange | 43 | |
8682745786 | Esteemed | Adj: respected and admired | 44 | |
8682748489 | Bourgeois & Petit Bourgeois | Adj: characteristic of the middle class, negative materialistic values. PB: adj: lower middle class, social climber | 45 | |
8682750859 | Epitaph | Noun: inscription on a tomb | 46 | |
8682752170 | Vigilant | Adj: keeping careful watch for possible danger | 47 | |
8682754848 | Incongruous | adj: not harmonious or in character, out of place | 48 | |
8682756143 | Hatemonger | Noun: a person who kindles hatred in others | 49 | |
8682757230 | Ideology | Noun: the content of thinking characteristic of an individual person (a belief) | 50 | |
8682760166 | Meritocracy | Noun: government or the holding of power by people selected by their ability | 51 | |
8682764880 | Facetious | Adj: Humorous in a way that can be rude or disrespectful | 52 | |
8682766467 | Corollary | Noun: a natural consequence or result | 53 | |
8682767837 | Normative | Noun: of or relating to determining norms/standards | 54 | |
8682770188 | Perquisite | noun: a privilege, gain or profit in addition to regular wages | 55 | |
8682774678 | Taxonomy | Noun: A system of classification for something, especially scientific | 56 | |
8682777993 | Disparage | Verb: to regard or represent as being of little or no worth | 57 | |
8682779419 | Confer | Verb: to grant or bestow, in the case of a title, degree, benefit or right | 58 | |
8682781166 | Palliate | Verb: to make something bad less unpleasant w/o removing the real cause | 59 | |
8682784382 | Implicit | Adj: Implied by not plainly expressed | 60 | |
8682785413 | Attest | Verb: to provide or serve as clear evidence of something | 61 | |
8682786709 | Mortification | noun: great embarrassment and shame | 62 | |
8682788211 | Evince | Verb: to reveal the presence of | 63 | |
8682790169 | blight | noun: cause of ruin/destruction; death of plant tissues | 64 | |
8682791762 | Chattel | Noun: a movable item of personal property | 65 | |
8682792968 | Surmountable | Adj: capable of being overcome, dealt with | 66 | |
8682794347 | transgressive | adj: involving a violation of accepted or imposed boundaries, esp. social | 67 | |
8682801551 | ascribe | verb: to assign or refer to | 68 | |
8682804041 | reparations | noun: the making of amends for a wrongdoing, by paying money or otherwise helping them | 69 | |
8682805784 | genteel | Adj: polite/refined often in an affected or ostentatious way | 70 | |
8682808003 | vernacular | noun: language or dialect spoken by ordinary people in a particular country or region | 71 |
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