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Word of the Day
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abhor | to regard with extreme distaste |
| abblusion | to bathe |
| abrogate | to distribute or replace |
| accede | to enter uponan office or position to give consent |
| acerbity | to have a bad tone |
| achillean | a week point on a person (achilles heal) |
| acme | the highest point |
| acumen | depth of knowlege |
| adulation | excessive or slavish admiration |
| affiance | trust or conficence to solemly promise marriage (Betroth) |
| agglomerate | to crumple or compact |
| alluvian | sediment piling up along a river |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| ameliorate | to make better or recover from |
| anon | at once (immediatly) after a while (later) |
| antebellum | "before the war" existing before the civil war |
| arcane | obscure, mysterious |
| arid | excessively dry lacking interest or life |
| avarice | excessive desire for wealth or gain |
| bellicose | inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| bombastic | pompous or overindulgent |
| brae | a hillside, exspecially alongside a rive |
| brevity | breif |
| brusque | unfair, cruel |
| bursar | an officer in charge of funds |
| cacophony | harsh or discordant sound in words or phrases |
| caitiff | cowardly despicable |
| candid | truthful, free from influence |
| capricous | unpredictable |
| caustic | corosive marked by excessive sarcasm |
| chagrin | humiliation, embarrasment, annoyance "much to my chagrin" |
| chicanery | diception by artful sophisticated trickery |
| circutious | indirect, out of the way |
| citadel | fortress, sronghold |
| clairvoyence | furure telling |
| clemency | to grant forgiveness |
| colloquial | informal or conversational |
| conflagration | large disatrous fire war |
| connote | implications, feelings you are trying to communicate |
| consternation | upset, confusion "looks of consternation" |
| demulcent | soothing or calming effect cough drop |
| deride | to burn, or diss |
| dipthong | linguistic term refering to the act of sliding vowels |
| ebullient | boiling over with enthusiasm |
| eclectic | wide variety, diversified |
| effervescent | bubbly, bouncy, happy |
| effluvium | dead, decaying |
| egregious | conspicuous plotting bad deed |
| elucidate | to make lucid by explanation or analysis |
| emaciated | starving, extremely thin |
| embellish | to indulge |
| emmulate | to immitate |
| ennervate | unnenthusiastic, draining |
| equinox | time of the year when day is equal to night |
| erudite | knowlageable, scholarly |
| expatiate | talk continuously go on at length |
| extraneous | extra, not neccesary |
| facetious | joking around in and almost innappropriate way |
| fiducial | based upon trust |
| florid | flowery |
| frolicsome | extremely joyous |
| gallimaufry | hodgepodge, no unifying theme |
| germane | relavant and appropriate |
| gerrymandering | manipulating boundries to gain a political advantage or partisan |
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jbodnar13
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