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vocabulary
definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| parse | to analyze or break down a sentence or word into its grammatical parts and functions |
| felony | a serious criminal offense that can result in a person committing it to spend at least 1 year in prison |
| 1st amendment | freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition |
| Tyranny | arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: dictatorship, absolutism, despotism |
| Watershed | an area that drains all the water and drains into one common outlet |
| effigy | An effigy is a model or other object that represents someone, especially one of a hated person that is hanged or burned in a public place. |
| apodyterium | changing room of the baths. |
| afront | an action or remark that causes outrage or offense: |
| aquit | free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty: |
| lager | a type of beer that is pale in colour and usually contains a lot of bubbles: |
| ale | a type of beer with a bitter flavor and higher alcoholic content: |
| introspective | a reflective looking inward : an examination of one's own thoughts and feelings |
| stoic | the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint. |
| oxy moron | An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that uses two opposite or contradictory terms one after the other in order to project an effect. eg old news painfully beautiful |
| posit | to suggest or accept that something is true so that it can be used as the basis for an argument or discussion synonym = postulate |
| gobsmacked | adjective that means overwhelmed with wonder, surprise, or shock. |
| Prescient | or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: |
| nostalgia | a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations: synonym wistfulness regret regretfulness reminiscence |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| assuage | make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense: satisfy (an appetite or desire): |
| bruschetta | toasted Italian bread drenched in olive oil and served typically with garlic or tomatoes: |
| apocalyptic | describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world: catastrophic momentous ominous portentous |
| eschew | deliberately avoid using; abstain from: |
| parthenogenesis | Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction by self-impregnation resulting in the production of a zygote from an unfertilized egg. Thus, it is also referred to by many as “virgin birth”. |
| anarchy | Form of society without rulers Anarchy is a form of society without rulers. |
| stonehenge | Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure |
| pejorative | expressing contempt or disapproval: |
| existential threat | danger that poses a risk to the very existence or survival of something |
| whipsawed | subjected to a double loss |
| pernicious | having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way: |
| fascism | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. |
| vaunted | a verb that means to make a vain display of one's own worth or attainments, or to call attention to pridefully and often boastfully. |
| canonize | (in the Roman Catholic Church) officially declare (a dead person) to be a saint: treat or regard as being above reproach or of great significance: |
| pragmatic | dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations: |
| martyrs | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs: "saints, martyrs, and witnesses to the faith" |
| convocation | a formal ceremony at a college or university, as for the conferring of awards. an assembly of persons called together to a meeting |
| oblast | An oblast is a political and administrative division of a country12. It is often translated in English as region or province2. The term oblast, or its cognates voblast and oblys, are used by many former Soviet countries1. |
| flumoxed | completely unable to understand : utterly confused or perplexed |
| grifting | engage in petty or small-scale swindling: |
| banal | If something is boring and unoriginal, it's banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater. |
| flummoxed | Informal. utterly bewildered, confused, or puzzled: When I walk into a store to buy video equipment and see the multitude of options, I’m befuddled and flummoxed. |
| Skullduggery | s a noun that means underhanded or unscrupulous behavior or a devious device or trick. underhanded or unscrupulous behavior also : a devious device or trick |
| pyrocumulus clouds | is sign the fire was intense enough to create its own micro-weather system. The phenomenon occurs when heat from burning vegetation rapidly rises into a cooler atmosphere, causing clouds, turbulent winds, and in some cases, lightning. |
| Umami | It is often referred to as "the fifth taste"3. Umami has a rich or meaty flavor characteristic of cheese, cooked meat, mushrooms, soy, and ripe tomatoes1. It has been described as savory and is characteristic of broths and cooked meats. |
| scorigami | In sports, a scorigami (a portmanteau of score and origami) is a scoring combination that has never happened before in a sport or league's history. |
| ableis | It is the tendency to regard people with disabilities as incomplete, diminished, or damaged, and to measure their quality of life against a nondisabled standard2. |
| orothodox | Orthodox, when capitalized, refers to a branch within a larger religious organization that claims to honor the religion's original or traditional beliefs1. It can also mean adhering to accepted norms or correct theological doctrine2. The term is often ass |
| Gen Z | beorn between 1997 and early 2012 |
| fascism | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. |
| fealty | a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord: "they owed fealty to the Earl rather than the King" formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord: "a property for which she did fealty" |
| convival | (of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, and enjoyable: (of a person) cheerful and friendly; jovial: |
| antipathy | a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion: |
| pariah | A pariah is someone or something that is despised or rejected by society or a group. a person who is not accepted by a social group, especially because they are not liked, respected, or trusted: |
| groveling | to lie or creep with the body prostrate in token of subservience or abasement |
| vapidity | a lack of interest or intelligence |
| picayune | A small coin with low monetary value, specifically a Spanish half real. Informally, something of little value or account. By extension, it can mean "trivial" or "of little value". |
| anathema | It refers to a person or thing that is detested or loathed. The word originates from Latin, meaning a doomed offering. A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication. |
| internecine | Internecine war or fighting happens between members of the same group, religion, or country: |
| bemused | The term "bemused" is defined as being marked by confusion or bewilderment. It can also refer to a state of being slightly confused or lost in thought. In essence, if someone is bemused, they may appear dazed or preoccupied. |
| inveterate | Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. |
| nostalgia | Nostalgia is a noun that means a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. It can also mean the state of being homesick or something that evokes nostalgia. |
| coquettish | co·quet·tish behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction; flirtatious: |
| usurp | take (a position of power or importance) unlawfully or by force: |
| lement | a passionet expression of grief or sorrow |
| Laudibly | in a way that deserves praise, even if there is little or no success: |
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