Question | Answer |
Abjure | to renounce under oath; to recant;to renounce |
abrogate | to abolish or annul |
acumen | quickness and keenness of judgement or insight |
antebellum | belonging to a period before war, especially the American Civil War |
auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success |
ab | away |
iurare | to swear |
rogare | to ask |
acuere | to sharpen |
acus | needle |
ante | before |
bellum | war |
belie | to give false representation to; contradict; misrepresent |
bellicose | warlike or hostile in manner or temperament |
chicanery | deception by trickery |
fr-chicane | to deceive |
churlish | vulgar; having a bad deposition |
me, churl | rude person |
circumlocution | the use of unnecassarily wordly and indirect words |
circum | around |
loqui | to speak |
circumnavigate | to proceed completely around |
navigate | to sail |
deciduous | shedding foliage at the end of a growing season, falling of or shedding at a specific stage of growth |
de | down |
cadere | to fall |
deleterious | having harmful effect; injurious |
diffident | shy, timid, lacking self confidence |
dis | not |
fidere | to trust |
enervate | to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of |
ex | out of |
nervus | sinew |
enfranchise | to free or endow with the rights of citizenship |
epiphany | a sudden manifestation of the essense or meaning of something |
evanescent | to vanish or likely to vanish |
expurgate | ro remove vulgar material from a book before publishing |
incontrovertible | impossible to argue with; unquestionable |
in | not |
contra | against |
versus | to turn |
inculate | to teach by frequent instruction or repetition; to indocrtrinate |
in | on |
calcare | to trample |
infrastructure | the basic system or underlying structure of an organization; the physical skeleton of a structure |
infra | below |
struere | to construct |
interpolate | to insert material into a text or insert into a conversation |
jejune | dull; uninteresting |
facetious | playfully jocular; HUMOROUS |
fatuous | foolish or silly |
feckless | lacking in vitality |
fiduciary | held in trust; having to do with paper currency |
gauche | lacking grace or social polish |
hemoglobin | the iron containing pigment in red blood cells of vertebrate |
homogeneous | uniform in structure of composition |
hubris | overbearing pride or arrogance |
incognito | with one's identity disguised or concealed |