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Word List Day 21
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| admonitory | containing warning |
| luculent | easily understood; lucid; clear |
| coeval | of the same period; coexisting |
| insularity | narrow-mindedness; isolated |
| auspicious | favorable successful prosperous |
| secular | material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries |
| streak | long thin move very fast |
| nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
| decry | disapprove of |
| penchant | strong inclination a liking |
| pulchritude | Physical beauty |
| onus | responsilibilty,burden |
| vanquish | conquer |
| extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind |
| assiduous | diligent hard-working; sedulous |
| privation | hardship |
| accretion | the growing of separate things into one |
| covetous | eagerly desirous |
| defalcate | (v) to embezzle or misappropriate |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive |
| indelible | that cannot be rubbed out |
| palliate | lessen the severity of |
| cogent | strong; convincing |
| dearth | shortage |
| pellucid | transparent easy to understand |
| condone | forgive |
| lumber | move in a clumsy/noisy way |
| discredit | refuse to believe |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| lurk | be out of view ready to attack |
| coda | passage that completes a piece of music |
| cornucopia | abundant supply |
| veneer | surface appearance covering the TRUE nature |
| petrify | to make hard rocklike |
| censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke |