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| 1) a small southern European viper with an upturned snout; 2) another term for Egyptian cobra |
Asp (n.) |
| 1) providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system; 2) additional; subsidiary |
Ancillary (adj.) ; (i.e.) "the development of ancillary services to support its products." ; "paragraph 19 was merely ancillary to paragraph 16" |
| 1) a person whose work provides necessary support to the primary activities of an organization, institution, or industry ; 2) something that functions in supporting or supplementary role |
Ancillary (n.) ; (i.e.) "the employment of specialist teachers and ancillaries" ; "undergraduate courses of three main subjects with related ancillaries" |
| 1) (of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual; 2) (of behavior or ability) indicative of such development; 3) (of a plant) flowering or fruiting earlier than usual |
Precocious (adj.) (i.e.) "he was a precocious, solitary boy" ; "a precocious talent for computing" |
| 1) attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed |
Pretentious (adj.) (i.e.) "a pretentious literary device" |
| 1) a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing |
Proclivitiy /proh-kliv-i-tee/ (n.) (i.e.) "a proclivity for hard work" |
| 1) A kiss; a playful kiss; a smack. ; 2) To kiss; especially to kiss with a smack. |
Buss (n./ v.) "Lucky guesser gets a buss upon his plucky kisser." ; "Exchange a random peace greeting during Mass with a stranger in the next pew and the odds are roughly one in fifty that you shake the hand or buss the cheek of a parishioner who has..." |
| 1) the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment. ; 2) the study of postage stamps, revenue stamps, stamped envelopes, postmarks, postal cards, covers, and similar material relating to postal or fiscal history. |
Philately (n.) //fi-lat-l-ee// |
| 1) any of numerous, chiefly Old World oscine birds, of the family Alaudidae, characterized by an unusually long, straight hind claw, esp. the skylark, Alauda arvensis ; |
Lark (n.) |
| 1) a merry, carefree adventure; frolic; escapade. 2) innocent or good-natured mischief; a prank. ; 3) something extremely easy to accomplish, succeed in, or to obtain ; (v.) 1) to have fun; frolic; romp. 2) to behave mischievously; play pranks. |
Lark (n./v.) |
| 1) in a dying state; near death. 2) on the verge of extinction or termination. 3) not progressing or advancing; stagnant |
Moribund (adj.) "a moribund political party." |
| 1) to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to relieve one's grief; 2) to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve ; 3) to soothe, calm, or mollify |
Assuage (v.) "to assuage one's pain; to assuage her anger; to assuage one's hunger." |
| 1) to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease. ; 2) to mitigate or reduce; soften: |
Molify (v.) "to mollify one's demands." |
| 1) An act of plundering or despoiling; a raid. 2) [Plural] Destructive operations; ravages. |
Depredation (n.) ". . .the depredations of pirates and privateers on the high seas." ; "Arguing for drastic measures, they cite the horrible depredations of drug addiction." |
| 1) the sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance. 2) money or its equivalent sent from one place to another. |
Remittance (n.) |
| 1) To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. 2) To build into a wall. 3) To entomb in a wall. |
Immure (v.) "Sally shuddered at the thought of being immured in the black cave." ; "...he was emperor in name only, the shadow of a memory, described by Lord Macaulay as 'a mock sovereign immured in a gorgeous state prison'. |
| 1) A snap of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow. 2. Something serving to rouse or excite; a stimulus. 3. A trivial addition; an embellishment. 4. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb... |
Fillip (n.) "If any one in Mirgorod gives him a neckerchief or underclothes, he returns thanks; if any one gives him a fillip on the nose--he returns thanks then also." ; "Her raspberry cream tart is given an added fillip with bourbon and nutmeg." |
| 1. Tending to make or become worse. 2. Tending to disparage or belittle. // 1. (noun) A belittling or disparaging word or expression. |
Pejorative (adj./n.)"Citing the construction industry, car dealers, and politicians as the purveyors of "sprawl" (a pejorative term that does not even allow for the possibility of benefits associated with low-density development), Kunstler fails to..." |
| 1. sour or astringent in taste 2. harsh or severe, as of temper or expression |
Acerbic (adj.) "His acerbic wit." "Lemon juice is acerbic." "acerbic criticism" |
| 1. The fixed customs of a particular group that are morally binding upon all members of the group. 2. Moral attitudes. 3. Customs; habits; ways. |
Mores (pl. n.) mawr-eyz, -eez, mohr- "Usually the laws mirror the mores of the populace in this regard, though at times they run ahead, and at times they lag behind." |
| 1. tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome 2. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy 3. Law. pertaining to causes between contending parties. |
Contentious (adj.) "a contentious crew" "contentious issues" |
| 1. not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull. 2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form. 3. (of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity. 4. indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound |
Obtuseness (adj.) |
| 1. tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation. 2. trembling or quivering movement; tremor |
Trepidation (n.) |
| 1. resolutely fearless; dauntless: |
Intrepid (adj.) " an intrepid explorer." |
| 1. Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy. |
Oneiric (adj.) \oh-NY-rik\, adjective "On this score, the novel might easily drift off into an oneiric never-never land, but Mr. Welch doesn't let this happen." |
| 1. the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe. |
Incredulity (n.) \in-kri-doo-li-tee\ |
| 1. a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel. 2. an introductory speech, often in verse, calling attention to the theme of a play. 3. any introductory proceeding, event, etc. |
Prologue (n.) "Appetizing delicacies were the prologue to a long dinner." |
| 1. the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding. 2. the act or an instance of discerning. |
Discernment (n.) |
| 1. To amuse oneself in light or lively manner; to frolic. 2. To divert or amuse. 3. To display. |
Disport (instransitive v.) "If you confine the kids' drinking to the college area, they will disport there and lessen the problem of the drunken car ride coming back from the out-of-town bar." |
| 1. (adj.) serving as a substitute; synthetic; artificial: an ersatz coffee made from grain. 2. (n.) an artificial substance or article used to replace something natural or genuine; a substitute. |
Ersatz \er-zahts, -sahts\ (adj. / n.) "ersatz emotion" ; "an ersatz coffee made from grain." |
| 1. (adv.) face to face 2. face-to-face 3. in relation to; compared with 5. facing; opposite 6. (n.) a person face to face with or situated opposite to another |
vis-á-vis \vee-zuh-vee\ (adv., adj., prep., n.) "They sat vis-à-vis at the table"; "a vis-à-vis encounter"; "income vis-à-vis expenditures."; "They were now vis-à-vis the most famous painting in the Louvre."; " He offered a cigarette to his vis-à-vis." |
| 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Draco or his code of laws. 2. (often lowercase) rigorous; unusually severe or cruel |
Draconian (adj.) "Draconian forms of punishment."; "Draconian measures" |
| 1. natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition |
Proclivity (n.) "a proclivity to meticulousness" |
| 1. A thicket or grove of small trees |
Copse \KOPS\ (n.) "A lit window shone from between the trees below them, then vanished again as the car dipped over a ditch and passed through a copse." |
| 1. Light, playful talk; banter. |
Badinage \bad-n-AHZH\ (n.) "Ken was determined to put the cares of the world behind him and do what he loved best -- having a few celebrity friends round and enjoying an evening of anecdote and badinage over a bottle of fine wine and some tasty food." |
| 1. Extreme poverty; destitution. 2. Absence of resources; insufficiency. |
Penury \PEN-yuh-ree\ (n.) "Charles regretted his departure, and the penury of his treasury, but trusted that God would favour him in his struggle against the king of France." |
| 1. strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt. 2. made, occurring, etc., at the scheduled or proper time 3. pertaining to or of the nature of a point. |
Punctual (adj.) " punctual payment." |
| 1. A peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular group of persons. 2. A slogan; a catchword. 3. A common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth. |
Shiboleth \SHIB-uh-lith; -leth\ (n.) "Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence." |
| 1. Astronomy. the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, esp. the moon, or of a man-made satellite at which it is farthest from the earth. Compare perigee. 2. the highest or most distant point; climax |
Apogee \ap-uh-jee\ (n.) "The golden age of American sail, which began with the fast clipper ships in 1848, reached its apogee in the Gold Rush years" |
| 1. Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc. 2.Burning; glowing; intensely hot. |
Fervid (adj.) "The words of fire that from his pen Were flung upon the fervid page,Still move, still shake the hearts of men, Amid a cold and coward age." |
| 1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance 2. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds 3. Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand. |
Cacophony /kuh-kof-uh-nee/ (n.) "a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails" "The cacophony produced by city traffic at midday." |
| 1. craving or consuming large quantities of food: 2. exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers |
Voracious /vaw-rey-shuhs/ "a voracious appetite." "a voracious collector." |
| 1. constant; unremitting 2. constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive |
Assiduous /uh-sij-oo-uhs/ "assiduous reading." "an assiduous student." |
| 1. Of questionable taste or morality; disreputable or indecent; dubious; shady |
Louche /LOOSH/ adj. "You've got to keep yourself free of any suggestion of louche behavior." "A man in a bar, utterly average, though there is something louche about him, something sly." |
| 1. routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: 2. from memory, without thought of the meaning; in a mechanical way |
Rote /roht/ (n.) (idiom) noun - "the rote of daily living." ; idiom - "to learn a language by rote" |
| 1. an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as "kick the bucket," or "hang ones head' 2. a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people |
Idiom /id-ee-uhm/ (n.) |
| 1. a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority. 2. the plots and schemes of such a group; intrigue. 3. a clique, as in artistic, literary, or theatrical circles 4. (verb) to form a cabal; intrigue; conspire; plot. |
Cabal /kuh-bal/ (n.) (v.) |
| 1. Smooth; having a surface without hairs, projections, or any unevenness. |
Glabrous /GLAY-bruhs/ (adj.) "This species has a bluish-tinged body completely covered in white flecking in the typical species, though completely glabrous green variants are also seen without any of the body flecking" |
| 1. readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so 2. easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners. 3. Characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern. |
Glib /glib/ (adj.) "a glib talker; glib answers." ; "I was fascinated by his unfailingly glib conversation." |
| 1. easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable 2. attracting special attention, as by outstanding qualities or eccentricities |
Conspicuous /kuhn-spik-yoo-uhs/ (adj.) "a conspicuous error." ; " He was conspicuous by his booming laughter." |
| 1. Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin. |
Homogenous /huh-moj-uh-nuhs/ (adj.) |
| 1. any of various theories or philosophical systems that seek to explain phenomena of nature by the action of force. 2. great energy, force, or power; vigor 3. Psychology. a habitual mode of reducing or eliminating tension. |
Dynamism /dahy-nuh-miz-uhm/ (adj.) "the dynamism of the new governor." |
| 1. the art of government and diplomacy. |
Statecraft (n.) |
| 1. a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite. |
Sycophant /sik-uh-fuhnt/ (n.) |
| 1. distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar |
Disparate /dis-per-it/ (adj.) "disparate ideas" |
| 1. containing a fallacy; logically unsound 2. deceptive; misleading 3. disappointing; delusive |
Fallacious /fuh-ley-shuhs/ (adj.) "fallacious arguments" ; "fallacious testimony" ; "a fallacious peace" |
| 1. a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay. |
Consternation /kon-ster-ney-shuhn/ (n.) |
| 1. unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse |
Loath /lohth/ (adj.) "the LSAT writers are not loath to use these tactics in various combinations" "to be loath to admit a mistake." |
| 1. to rub, smear, stiffen, polish, etc., with wax 2. to fill the crevices of (ornamental marble) with colored material. 3. Informal. to make a phonograph recording of. |
Wax (v.) "to wax the floor." |
| 1. extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic. |
Rhapsodic /rap-sod-ik/ (adj.) |
| 1. giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding 2. pertaining to formation or development 3. (Biology) capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation |
Formative /fawr-muh-tiv/ (adj.) "a formative process in manufacturing." ; "a child's most formative years." ; "formative tissue." |
| 1. promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable 2. favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate. |
Auspicious /aw-spish-uhs/ (adj.) "an auspicious occasion. " |
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| 1. feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base |
Indignant /in-dig-nuhnt/ (adj.) "indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face." |
| 1. performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial 2. lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic |
Perfunctory /per-fuhngk-tuh-ree/ (adj.) "perfunctory courtesy." "In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a perfunctory speaker." |
| 1. a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration. 2. a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition. |
Iconoclast /ahy-kon-uh-klast/ (n.) |
| 1. the branch of zoology dealing with the primates. |
Primatology /prahy-muh-tol-uh-jee/ (n.) |
| 1. sullen; gloomy 2. severe; stern 3. Scot. (of land) barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate. |
Dour /dou-er/ (adj.) " The captain's dour look depressed us all." "His dour criticism made us regret having undertaken the job." |
| 1. burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship 2. having or involving obligations or responsibilities, esp. legal ones, that outweigh the advantages |
Onerous // (adj.) "onerous duties." " an onerous agreement." |
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| 1. to inflame with wrath; make angry; enrage. |
Incense // () |
| 1. constant; unremitting 2. constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive |
Assiduous /uh-sij-oo-uhs/ (adj.) "assiduous reading." " an assiduous student." |
| 1. to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity. |
Comiserate /kuh-miz-uh-reyt/ (v.) |
| 1. the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops. 2. Medicine/Medical. the flushing or washing out of anything with water or other liquid. |
Irrigation /ir-i-gey-shuhn/ (n.) |
| 1. showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding |
Discerning /di-sur-ning/ (adj.) "He wrote a quite discerning report on the topic." "a discerning critic of French poetry." |
| 1. characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides 2. characterized by great slaughter; deadly 3. (of conflict) within a group or ogranization |
Internecine /in-ter-nee-seen/ (adj.) "internecine war"; "an internecine feud among proxy holders" |
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| 1. boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable. |
Inauspicious /in-aw-spish-uhs/ (adj.) |
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| 1. to increase; enlarge; lengthen. 2. eke out: a. to make (a living) or support (existence) laboriously b. to supplement; add to; stretch |
Eke // (v./ verb phrase) "to eke out an income with odd jobs." "They managed to eke out a living by farming a small piece of land." |
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| 1. full of fear; fearful. 2. subject to fear; timid. 3. characterized by or indicating fear |
Timorous /tim-er-uhs/ (adj.) "The noise made them timorous." ; "a timorous whisper." |
| 1. pertaining to or expressing a notion or idea. 2. of the nature of a notion or idea 3. abstract, theoretical, or speculative, as reflective thought. 4. not real or actual; ideal or imaginary 5. given to or full of foolish or fanciful ideas or moods. |
Notional /noh-shuh-nl/ (adj.) "a notional response to the question." "to create a notional world for oneself." |
| 1. A blessing; a benediction. |
Benison /běn'ĭ-zən/ (n.) |
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