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Vocab
Episode 9
| Word | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impediment | 1. obstruction; hindrance; obstacle. 2. any physical defect that impedes normal or easy speech; a speech disorder. 3. Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law. a bar, usually of blood or affinity, to marriage: a diriment impediment. |
| Confounding | To cause to become confused or perplexed. To fail to distinguish; mix up: confound fiction and fact. |
| Succintly | 1. expressed in few words; concise; terse. 2. characterized by conciseness or verbal brevity. 3. compressed into a small area, scope, or compass. 4. Archaic. a. drawn up, as by a girdle. b. close-fitting. c. encircled, as by a girdle. |
| Opaque | 1. not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through. |
| Lethargic | 1. of, pertaining to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish. 2. producing lethargy. |
| Buttress | 1. any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, esp. a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall. 2. any prop or support. |
| Rebut | 1. to refute by evidence or argument. 2. to oppose by contrary proof. –verb (used without object) 3. to provide some evidence or argument that refutes or opposes. |
| thesis | a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, esp. one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections: He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war. |
| Critique | 2. a criticism or critical comment on some problem, subject, etc. 3. the art or practice of criticism. |
| Camaraderie | Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between or among friends; comradeship. |
| Negligible | 1. so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible" 2. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" |
| Paradigm | the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm" |
| retrospect | contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc. –verb (used without object) 2. to look back in thought; refer back (often fol. by to): to retrospect to a period in one's youth. |
| perturbed | To disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious. To throw into great confusion. Physics & Astronomy To cause perturbation, as of a celestial orbit. |
| empirical | derived from or guided by experience or experiment. 2. depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, esp. as in medicine. 3. provable or verifiable by experience or experiment. |
| evinced | 1. to show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove. 2. to reveal the possession of (a quality, trait, etc.). |
| cicumlocution | 1. a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. 2. a roundabout expression. |
| eschew | to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid: to eschew evil. |
| chided | to express disapproval of; scold; reproach: The principal chided the children for their thoughtless pranks. 2. to harass, nag, impel, or the like by chiding: She chided him into apologizing. 3. to scold or reproach; find fault. |
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