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Week One Vocab
Caterwaul noun a screeching waili...,
Bellwether noun a leader as in a ...,
Effete adjective lacking in whole...
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Week Seventeen Vocab
Tendentious adj intended to promo...,
Systemic adj of or pertaining to ...,
Vicissitude noun a change variati...
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Week Eighteen Vocab
Ensconce verb to settle securely ...,
Dictum noun an authoritative pron...,
Iconoclastic adj breaking images ...
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Week Nineteen Vocab
Portentous adj foreshadowing an e...,
Maudlin adj excessively or effusi...,
Prescience noun knowledge of even...
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Week Twenty Vocab
Touchstone noun a means of testin...,
Saturnalian adj characterized by ...,
Vitiated participial form and the...
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Week Twenty One Vocab
Beleaguer transitive verb to set ...,
Ambivalent adj having opposite an...,
Carte blanche noun full freedom o...
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Week Twenty Two Vocab
Fastidious adj meticulous in natu...,
Eclat noun dazzling or conspicuou...,
Gambol verb to jump or skip about...
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Week Twenty Three
Philistine noun capable of being ...,
Refractory adj stubborn hard or d...,
Picaresque involving or character...
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Week Twenty Four Vocab
Aberration noun break in pattern ...,
Savoir faire noun panache style h...,
Ad hoc adj for this specific purp...
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Week Twenty Five
Casuistry noun specious argument ...,
Cantankerous adj irritated or irr...,
De facto adj actually existing or...
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Week Twenty Six Vocab
Mellifluous adj,
Malcontent adj,
Nepotism noun
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Week Twenty Seven Vocab
Remand return to,
Piece de resistance noun,
Beatitude noun gratification
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Week Twenty Eight
Ecumenical,
Dank adj,
Fervid
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Week Twenty Nine
Lagniappe,
Inveigled,
Prolix
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Week Thirty One Vocab
Dissimulate verb,
Disparity noun,
Empirical adj concrete data
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Week Thirty Vocab
Acumen,
Truckle,
Adjudicate
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Week Thirty Two Vocab
Mot juste,
Monolithic,
Nihilism
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Week Thirty Three Vocab
Dichotomy noun diverging,
Apostate noun exile,
Effuse adj enthusiastic super praise
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Week Two Vocab
Hidebound adjective narrow minded...,
A fait accompli noun an accomplis...,
Hierarchy noun any system of thin...
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Week Three Vocab
Poltroon noun a base coward one r...,
Noisome adjective offensive and d...,
Ribald adjective mocking coarse v...
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Week Four Vocab
Apprise verb to inform of to make...,
Aegis noun protection patronage s...,
Vignette noun a short description...
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Week Five Vocab
Deracinate verb uproot eliminate ...,
Claque noun a group of people hir...,
Eleemosynary adjective charitable...
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Week Six Vocab
Microcosm noun a miniature world ...,
Lexicon noun a dictionary of a la...,
Obfuscate transitive verb to dark...
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Week Seven Vocab
Sanguine adj ruddy cheerfully opt...,
Purview noun range of jurisdictio...,
Solecism noun incorrect speech al...
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Week Eight Vocab
Bowdlerize transitive verb to rem...,
Ancillary adj subordinate supplem...,
Cozen verb to trick to cheat or s...
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Week Nine Vocab
Mountebank noun a trickster or sw...,
Interstice noun a small narrow sp...,
Paean noun a song of praise joy o...
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Week Ten Vocab
Rapacity noun inordinate greed th...,
Quizzical adj puzzled mocking odd...,
Schism noun a formal split within...
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Week Eleven Vocab
Corollary noun a proposition that...,
Cognates noun closely related in ...,
Derring do noun valor or heroism ...
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Week Twelve Vocab
Hoi polloi noun the common people...,
Gamut noun an entire range or series,
Ineffable adj not expressible in ...
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Week Thirteen Vocab
Pundit noun a learned person one ...,
Obloquy noun public abuse indicat...,
Risible adj pertaining to laughte...
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Week Fourteen Vocab
Browbeat transitive verb to intim...,
Aficionado noun an enthusiastic a...,
Commensurate adj equal in size ex...
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Week Fifteen Vocab
Homily noun a sermon stressing mo...,
Foray noun a quick raid especiall...,
Insouciant adj blithely indiffere...
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Week Sixteen Vocab
Persona noun a character in a nov...,
Panache noun a confident or styli...,
Philippic noun a bitter verbal at...
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