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Lesson 15 WAI

Words Are Important

TermDefinition
Amnesia A partial or total loss of memory.
Amorphous Without a clearly defined shape or form. Vague; ill-organized; unclassifiable.
Amortize Reduce or extinguish (a debt) by money regularly put aside. Gradually write off the initial cost of (an asset).
Execrable Extremely bad or unpleasant.
Concurrent Existing, happening, or done at the same time.
Exonerate Release someone from (a duty or obligation).
Exorcise Drive out or attempt to drive out (an evil spirit) from a person or place.
Genuflection The act of bending the knees in worship or reverence.
Irascible (of a person) Easily made angry.
Miasma A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor: "a miasma of stale alcohol".
Necromancy The supposed practice of communicating with the dead, esp. in order to predict the future.
Oblation A thing presented or offered to God or a god.
Peculation Embezzlement: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.
Pedestrian A person walking along a road or in a developed area.
Preempt Take action in order to prevent (an event) from happening; forestall.
Prognosticate Foretell or prophesy (an event in the future).
Recondite (of a subject or knowledge) Little known; abstruse: "recondite information".
Scrofulous Of, relating to, resembling, or having scrofula. (A disease with glandular swellings, probably a form of tuberculosis) Morally degraded
Timbre The character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.
Vapid Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging: "tuneful but vapid musical comedies".
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