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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abjure | to renounce under oath; to recant;to renounce |
| abrogate | to abolish or annul |
| acumen | quickness and keenness of judgement or insight |
| antebellum | belonging to a period before war, especially the American Civil War |
| auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success |
| ab | away |
| iurare | to swear |
| rogare | to ask |
| acuere | to sharpen |
| acus | needle |
| ante | before |
| bellum | war |
| belie | to give false representation to; contradict; misrepresent |
| bellicose | warlike or hostile in manner or temperament |
| chicanery | deception by trickery |
| fr-chicane | to deceive |
| churlish | vulgar; having a bad deposition |
| me, churl | rude person |
| circumlocution | the use of unnecassarily wordly and indirect words |
| circum | around |
| loqui | to speak |
| circumnavigate | to proceed completely around |
| navigate | to sail |
| deciduous | shedding foliage at the end of a growing season, falling of or shedding at a specific stage of growth |
| de | down |
| cadere | to fall |
| deleterious | having harmful effect; injurious |
| diffident | shy, timid, lacking self confidence |
| dis | not |
| fidere | to trust |
| enervate | to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of |
| ex | out of |
| nervus | sinew |
| enfranchise | to free or endow with the rights of citizenship |
| epiphany | a sudden manifestation of the essense or meaning of something |
| evanescent | to vanish or likely to vanish |
| expurgate | ro remove vulgar material from a book before publishing |
| incontrovertible | impossible to argue with; unquestionable |
| in | not |
| contra | against |
| versus | to turn |
| inculate | to teach by frequent instruction or repetition; to indocrtrinate |
| in | on |
| calcare | to trample |
| infrastructure | the basic system or underlying structure of an organization; the physical skeleton of a structure |
| infra | below |
| struere | to construct |
| interpolate | to insert material into a text or insert into a conversation |
| jejune | dull; uninteresting |
| facetious | playfully jocular; HUMOROUS |
| fatuous | foolish or silly |
| feckless | lacking in vitality |
| fiduciary | held in trust; having to do with paper currency |
| gauche | lacking grace or social polish |
| hemoglobin | the iron containing pigment in red blood cells of vertebrate |
| homogeneous | uniform in structure of composition |
| hubris | overbearing pride or arrogance |
| incognito | with one's identity disguised or concealed |
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