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vicarious
adj. Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
redundance
n. Excess.
fawn
n. A young deer.
importation
n. The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
cognate
adj. Akin.
orgies
n. Wild or wanton revelry.
giddy
adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
idiosyncrasy
n. A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
seismograph
n. An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
norm
n. A model.
egotism
n. Self-conceit.
radical
n. One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
inlet
n. A small body of water leading into a larger.
finally
adv. At last.
transcontinental
adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
parish
n. The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
conquer
v. To overcome by force.
underman
v. To equip with less than the full complement of men.
incendiary
n. Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
demented
adj. Insane.
outreach
v. To reach or go beyond.
enfeeble
v. To debilitate.
insentient
adj. Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving.
illegitimate
adj. Unlawfully begotten.
migrate
v. To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another.
gradation
n. A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
decimate
v. To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
kilometer
n. A length of 1,000 meters.
capitulate
v. To surrender or stipulate terms.
academy
n. Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
epiphany
n. Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
advert
v. To refer incidentally.
comprehension
n. Ability to know.
pentavalent
adj. Quinqeuvalent.
pall
v. To make dull by satiety.
reprieve
v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
inopportune
adj. Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time.
magnitude
n. Importance.
feint
n. Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
prelude
n. An introductory or opening performance.
lapse
n. A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
trio
n. Three things grouped or associated together.
kilowatt
n. One thousand watts.
acquit
v. To free or clear, as from accusation.
hypercritical
adj. Faultfinding.
cryptogram
n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
disobedience
n. Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
boorish
adj. Rude.
statute
n. Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
expedite
v. To hasten the movement or progress of.
improvise
v. To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
postgraduate
adj. Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
mercantile
adj. Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial.
languor
n. Lassitude of body or depression.
efflorescent
adj. Opening in flower.
interrogate
v. To examine formally by questioning.
poignant
adj. Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
pennant
n. A small flag.
belay
v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
raucous
adj. Harsh.
lieu
n. Stead.
gourmand
n. A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
disclaim
v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
misty
adj. Lacking clearness
preparatory
adj. Having to do with what is preliminary.
advisory
adj. Not mandatory.
aspirant
n. One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place.
tentative
adj. Done as an experiment.
vehement
adj. Very eager or urgent.
sarcophagus
n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
likelihood
n. A probability.
recognizance
n. An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
castigate
v. To punish.
orator
n. One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
accredit
v. To give credit or authority to.
prowess
n. Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
fluctuate
v. To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
convalescent
adj. Recovering health after sickness.
corruption
n. Loss of purity or integrity.
enthrone
v. To invest with sovereign power.
transmute
v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
broach
v. To mention, for the first time.
antecede
v. To precede.
bristle
n. One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
punctual
adj. Observant and exact in points of time.
momentum
n. An impetus.
bier
n. A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
continuous
adj. Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
dissatisfy
v. To displease.
savage
n. A wild and uncivilized human being.
testament
n. A will.
protomartyr
n. The earliest victim in any cause.
Elizabethan
adj. Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era.
diffident
adj. Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
philology
n. The study of language in connection with history and literature.
suspense
n. Uncertainty.
excusable
adj. Justifiable.
disrobe
v. To unclothe.
forthright
adv. With directness.
sphericity
n. The state or condition of being a sphere.
slight
adj. Of a small importance or significance.
culvert
n. Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
revert
v. To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
nondescript
adj. Indescribable.
annuity
n. An annual allowance, payment, or income.
paramour
n. One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
contemptible
adj. Worthy of scorn or disdain.
disquiet
v. To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
needy
adj. Being in need, want, or poverty.
grantee
n. The person to whom property is transferred by deed.
impeccable
adj. Blameless.
topography
n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
malleable
adj. Pliant.
irradiate
v. To render clear and intelligible.
creak
n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
medley
n. A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
recur
v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
handwriting
n. Penmanship.
disenfranchise
v. To deprive of any right privilege or power
verbatim
adv. Word for word.
mordant
adj. Biting.
fusible
adj. Capable of being melted by heat.
reticence
n. The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
shrinkage
n. A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
corrigible
adj. Capable of reformation.
discord
n. Absence of harmoniousness.
dissentient
n. One who disagrees.
perpendicular
adj. Straight up and down.
callow
adj. Without experience of the world.
manumit
v. To set free from bondage.
incombustible
adj. That can not be burned.
militate
v. To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
gossamer
adj. Flimsy.
landholder
n. Landowner.
retrace
v. To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
effeminacy
n. Womanishness.
verity
n. Truth.
opalescence
n. The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
gratify
v. To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need.
besmear
v. To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
transact
v. To do business.
bibulous
adj. Fond of drinking.
irrefrangible
adj. That can not be broken or violated.
gluttonous
adj. Given to excess in eating.
callosity
n. The state of being hard and insensible.
happy-go-lucky
adj. Improvident.
animosity
n. Hatred.
tableau
n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
penchant
n. A bias in favor of something.
offshoot
n. Something that branches off from the parent stock.
subordinate
adj. Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
exigent
adj. Urgent.
seminar
n. Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
inject
v. To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
absolve
v. To free from sin or its penalties.
pseudonym
n. A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
promoter
n. A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
judicial
adj. Pertaining to the administration of justice.
radix
n. That from or on which something is developed.
inflexible
adj. That can not be altered or varied.
disciplinary
adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
invective
n. An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
tutelage
n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
parlor
n. A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
abet
v. To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
guy
n. Stay-rope.
apostasy
n. A total departure from one’s faith or religion.
caret
n. A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
proceed
v. To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
mettlesome
adj. Having courage or spirit.
abeyance
n. A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
dispossess
v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
reckless
adj. Foolishly headless of danger.
juror
n. One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
massive
adj. Of considerable bulk and weight.
statistician
n. One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
dowry
n. The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
gestation
n. Pregnancy.
credible
adj. Believable.
multiform
adj. Having many shapes, or appearances.
objective
adj. Grasping and representing facts as they are.
consumptive
adj. Designed for gradual destruction.
Pan-American
adj. Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
muffle
v. To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
suppress
v. To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
instantaneous
adj. Done without perceptible lapse of time.
vacate
v. To leave.
systematic
adj. Methodical.
percolator
n. A filter.
giver
n. One who gives, in any sense.
discipline
v. To train to obedience.
pretentious
adj. Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
citadel
n. Any strong fortress.
disfavor
n. Disregard.
centurion
n. A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
acrimonious
adj. Full of bitterness.
facilitate
v. To make more easy.
credence
n. Belief.
bronchitis
n. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
demobilize
v. To disband, as troops.
