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proficiency
n. An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
rotund
adj. Round from fullness or plumpness.
preemption
n. The right or act of purchasing before others.
disquiet
v. To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
underling
n. A subordinate.
obsolete
adj. No longer practiced or accepted.
indomitable
adj. Unconquerable.
ground
n. A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk.
induct
v. To bring in.
entreaty
n. An earnest request.
autarchy
n. Unrestricted power.
morale
n. A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
repulsive
adj. Grossly offensive.
dedication
n. The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
fetus
n. The young in the womb or in the egg.
disciplinary
adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
mouthful
n. As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
pestilent
adj. Having a malign influence or effect.
invidious
adj. Showing or feeling envy.
gosling
n. A young goose.
concurrence
n. Agreement.
virulent
adj. Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
invoke
v. To call on for assistance or protection.
corroborate
v. To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
determination
n. The act of deciding.
apprehensible
adj. Capable of being conceived.
bole
n. The trunk or body of a tree.
mislay
v. To misplace.
appertain
v. To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
pinnacle
n. A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
depository
n. A place where anything is kept in safety.
retouch
v. To modify the details of.
abeyance
n. A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
paleontology
n. The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
benign
adj. Good and kind of heart.
accouter
v. To dress.
perhaps
adv. Possibly.
tutorship
n. The office of a guardian.
aqueous
adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
mountainous
adj. Full of or abounding in mountains.
promontory
n. A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
tactics
n. Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
temerity
n. Recklessness.
microscopy
n. The art of examing objects with the microscope.
competitor
n. A rival.
lunar
adj. Pertaining to the moon.
immoral
adj. Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices.
access
n. A way of approach or entrance; passage.
perspicacity
n. Acuteness or discernment.
alleviate
v. To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
distemper
n. A disease or malady.
aide-de-camp
n. An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
plebeian
adj. Common.
proclamation
n. Any announcement made in a public manner.
aliment
n. That which nourishes.
legitimate
adj. Having the sanction of law or established custom.
depth
n. Deepness.
immaculate
adj. Without spot or blemish.
incident
n. A happening in general, especially one of little importance.
cull
v. To pick or sort out from the rest.
baton
n. An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
forecourt
n. A court opening directly from the street.
fusible
adj. Capable of being melted by heat.
pastoral
adj. Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
replete
adj. Full to the uttermost.
transverse
adj. Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
dissipate
v. To disperse or disappear.
actionable
adj. Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
dissentious
adj. Contentious.
inveigh
v. To utter vehement censure or invective.
witless
adj. Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
depreciate
v. To lessen the worth of.
ruminant
adj. Chewing the cud.
preferential
adj. Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
unctuous
adj. Oily.
symphonious
adj. Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
achromatic
adj. Colorless,
desperado
n. One without regard for law or life.
irrefragable
adj. That can not be refuted or disproved.
parallel
v. To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
comparison
n. Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
fluential
adj. Pertaining to streams.
prowess
n. Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
head
first adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
lapse
n. A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
ichthyic
adj. Fish-like.
efface
v. To obliterate.
stringency
n. Strictness.
squalid
adj. Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
gumption
n. Common sense.
delectation
n. Delight.
importune
v. To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
disagree
v. To be opposite in opinion.
inundation
n. Flood.
dishabille
n. Undress or negligent attire.
octagon
n. A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
foolery
n. Folly.
lexicon
n. A dictionary.
repel
v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
wittingly
adv. With knowledge and by design.
Martian
adj. Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet.
irrefrangible
adj. That can not be broken or violated.
consignor
n. One who entrusts.
recur
v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
transplant
v. To remove and plant in another place.
sinuous
adj. Curving in and out.
dissolution
n. A breaking up of a union of persons.
polyarchy
n. Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
receivable
adj. Capable of being or fit to be received – often money.
corpuscle
n. A minute particle of matter.
huckster
n. One who retails small wares.
interlude
n. An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
voluble
adj. Having great fluency in speaking.
revisal
n. Revision.
repartee
n. A ready, witty, or apt reply.
Darwinism
n. The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
fathom
n. A measure of length, 6 feet.
streamlet
n. Rivulet.
nasal
adj. Pertaining to the nose.
disinfectant
n. A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
comparable
adj. Fit to be compared.
abase
v. To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
imitation
n. That which is made as a likeness or copy.
erroneous
adj. Incorrect.
sense
n. The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
coercion
n. Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
votive
adj. Dedicated by a vow.
penetration
n. Discernment.
micrometer
n. An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions.
corrosion
n. Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
misdeed
n. A wrong or improper act.
sentinel
n. Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
disparage
v. To regard or speak of slightingly.
sapiential
adj. Possessing wisdom.
restitution
n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
heredity
n. Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
loiterer
n. One who consumes time idly.
misbehave
v. To behave ill.
preoccupation
n. The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
hexapod
adj. Having six feet.
magnitude
n. Importance.
resuscitate
v. To restore from apparent death.
maintain
v. To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition.
operative
adj. Active.
carrion
n. Dead and putrefying flesh.
delineate
v. To represent by sketch or diagram.
doublet
n. One of a pair of like things.
sebaceous
adj. Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
misrepresent
v. To give a wrong impression.
Arthurian
adj. Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
humanitarian
n. A philanthropist.
referrer
n. One who refers.
boorish
adj. Rude.
butte
n. A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
emblazon
v. To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
pseudonymity
n. The state or character of using a fictitious name.
translucence
n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
tripod
n. A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
compunction
n. Remorseful feeling.
delicacy
n. That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
floe
n. A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
venial
adj. That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
introversion
n. The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
solstice
n. The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.
unbridled
adj. Being without restraint.
prediction
n. A prophecy.
luminescent
adj. Showing increase of light.
ascension
n. The act of rising.
dominance
n. Ascendancy.
foreknowledge
n. Prescience.
eclipse
n. The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body.
neo-Latin
n. Modernized Latin.
detriment
n. Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
dentifrice
n. Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
misadventure
n. An unlucky accident.
gauge
n. An instrument for measuring.
pluperfect
adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
pleasant
adj. Agreeable.
memento
n. A souvenir.
playwright
n. A maker of plays for the stage.
nucleus
n. A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
percolator
n. A filter.
dissolve
v. To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
inborn
adj. Implanted by nature.
unnecessary
adj. Not essential under the circumstances.
odorous
adj. Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
cathode
n. The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
man-eater
n. An animal that devours human beings.
distinction
n. A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
ally
n. A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
veracious
adj. Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
frivolity
n. A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
thoroughfare
n. A public street or road.
psychic
adj. Pertaining to the mind or soul.
genesis
n. Creation.
disclaim
v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
dolor
n. Lamentation.
forepeak
n. The extreme forward part of a ship’s hold, under the lowest deck.
Narcissus
n. The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
legitimacy
n. Accordance with law.
