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WAI: Lesson #9
Term | Definition |
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Asperity | Harshness of roughness, especially of tone or manner |
Catechize | To question someone persistently and closely |
Codicil | An addition or supplement, especially regarding the terms of a will |
Decimate | To destroy a large part or number of |
Diaphanous | Delicately hazy, or vague |
Dilatory | Tendency to delay, or procrastinate |
Erudite | Having or showing a high level of scholarly knowledge |
Eugenics | The study or belief in the possibility of improving the human race, especially through controlled breading. |
Germane | Pertaining, or closely related to a given matter. |
Halcyon | Tranquil, peaceful, calm |
Incarcerate | To confine or in-close in |
Masticate | To grind or chew |
Mellifluous | Sweetly or smoothly flowing |
Oculist | Formerly an ophthalmologist or optometrist |
Optician | A person who makes or sells eyeglasses |
Optometrist | A person who is trained to examine people's eyes and to fit them with eyeglasses or contact lenses. |
Parsimonious | Excessively frugal or stingy |
Piquant | Agreeable attractive, stimulating, provocative or sharp in personality or taste |
Scurrilous | Characterized by or given to using coarse or vulgar language |
Seismic | Of, concerning, or resulting from an earthquake |