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"NBT" Week 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| steadfast | 1. fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze. 2. firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person: a steadfast friend. 3. unwavering, as resolution, faith, adherence, etc. |
| facilitate | 1. to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work. 2. to assist the progress of (a person). |
| beneficiary | . a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages. 2. a person designated as the recipient of funds or other property under a will, trust, insurance policy, etc. 3. Ecclesiastical . the holder of a benefice. |
| bickering | 1. to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering. 2. to run rapidly; move quickly; rush; hurry: a stream bickering down the valley. |
| insolence | 1. contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech. 2. the quality or condition of being insolent. |
| middling | 1. medium, moderate, oraverage in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling. 2. mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling. |
| contemporary | 1. existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz. 2. of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand. |
| inflation | 1. Economics . a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation ). |
| civilized | 1. having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc. 2. polite; well-bred; refined. 3. of or pertaining to civilized people: The civilized world must fight ignorance. |
| infraction | 1. breach; violation; infringement: an infraction of the rules. 2. Medicine/Medical . an incomplete fracture of a bone. |
| wit | 1. the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee. |
| entice | to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle: They were enticed westward by dreams of gold. |
| prone | 1. having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger. 2. having the front or ventral part downward; lying face downward. 3. lying flat; prostrate. 4. having a downward direction or slope. |
| bedlam | 1. a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion. 2. Archaic. an insane asylum or madhouse. |
| botch | 1. to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up ): He botched up the job thoroughly. 2. to do or say in a bungling manner. 3. to mend or patch in a clumsy manner. |
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