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Words for the week
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair syn: submit, accede, surrender. | succumb |
| a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause: a martyr to the cause of social justice. syn: sacrifice, sacrificial victim, ransom, victim, scapegoat | Martyr |
| disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person. syn: unforgiving | Vindictive |
| caused by or showing sincere remorse syn: rueful, remorseful, repentant. | Contrite |
| to prevail over: to surmount tremendous difficulties, overcome, triumph over syn: best, better, cap, clear, conquer, crest, crown, defeat, down, exceed | Surmount |
| incapable of being replaced; unique: an irreplaceable vase syn: unique, inimitable, matchless, exceptional, rare, | Irreplaceable |
| not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect: an irreverent reply. syn: irreligious, impious, profane. | Irreverent |
| not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree. syn: certain, changeless, constant, doomed, established, | Irrevocable |
| not reparable; incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good: an irreparable mistake. syn: beyond repair, broken, cure less, destroyed, hopeless, impossible, | Irreparable |
| Marked by a lack of responsibility, Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy. syn: thoughtless, reckless, careless, wild, unreliable | Irresponsible |
| the laying on of something as a burden or obligation. something imposed, as a burden or duty; an unusual or extraordinarily burdensome requirement or task. syn: artifice, cheating, con, craftiness, dissimulation, fraud, hoax, | Imposition |
| distinguished by rank or title. pertaining to persons so distinguished. syn: highborn, aristocratic, honorable. | Noble |
| elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa. embellished with rhetoric; florid or high-flown syn: showy, ostentatious; rich, lavish. | Ornate |
| respect or reverence paid or rendered: In his speech he paid homage to Washington and Jefferson. syn: deference, obeisance; honor, tribute. | Homage |
| an act or instance of going or moving around, a circular journey or one beginning and ending at the same place; a round. syn: tour, revolution, orbit, circumference, perimeter, periphery | Circuit |
| to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map. to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, esp. narrowly: Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations. syn: restrict, restrain, check, hamper, hinder. | Circumscribe |
| to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues. to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) syn: escape, elude, evade, outwit | Circumvent |
| roundabout; not direct: a circuitous route; a circuitous argument. syn: back road, by way of, long way around, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout | Circuitous |
| a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. syn: rambling, meandering, verbosity, prolixity | Circumlocution |
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