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English WOD
Clinton's Mid Term English word of the days
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encomium | (N) formal expression praise, lavish commendation |
| Coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; meaningful |
| Asseverate | (v.)to affirm earnestly with emphasisi |
| Eschew | (v.) to shun |
| Emulate | (v) to imitate with intent of equaling |
| Arrogate | (v) to claim or take without right |
| Banal | (adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| Excotiate | (v) to denounce, criticize in strong language |
| Congeal | (v) to change from a liquid to a solid; To thicken |
| Carping | (adj) tending to find fault, especially in a nagging way |
| Substantiate | (v) to establish by evidence, prove |
| Temporize | (v) to act indecisively in order to gain time or to delay |
| Largesse | (n) generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions |
| Tenable | (adj) capable of being defended or held |
| Insatiable | (adj) Do great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied |
| Reconnaissance | Survey made for military purposes, any kind of inspection or careful examination preliminary to action |
| Germane | (adj) relevant, appropriate |
| Ramify | (v) to divide and spread out like branches |
| Intransigent | (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
| Taciturn | (adj) habitually sient or quiet inclined to talk very little |
| Incendiary | (adj) deliberately setting or causing fires tenfind to sit up strife or rebellion (n) One who cause strife or rebellion |
| Maelstrom | (nO whirlpool. of great size and violence; situation resembling a whirlpool in violent and destructive potential |
| Avid | (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed( usually with an unfavorable connotation); urgently earger( in a sense that may be favorable or negative) |
| Hoyden | (n) a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous. carfee behavior |
| Devious | (n) straying or wandering from a stright, from the correct way of doing things; done or acting in an underhanded or shifty way |
| Invidios | (adj) offensice, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| Animadversion | (n) a remark indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| Covenant | (n) solemn agreement between two or more parties |
| Gambit | (n) an opening move that involves a sacrifive or concession in order to gain a later advantage |
| Brackish | (adj) having a salty taste and therefore unpleasant to drink |
| Histrionic | (adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; artifical, affected; designed to produce |
| Celerity | (n) swiftness, rapidity of motion, or any faculty |
| Propound | (v) to put forward, purpose, suggest for consideration |
| Propriety | (n) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable (in manners, dress, speech etc.) |
| Overt | (adj) open not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| Undulate | (v) to move in waves or with wavelike motion; To have a wavelike apperance or form |
| Sacrilege | (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of somthing held sacred |
| Tailsman | (n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to connicer magical powers |
| Myopic | (adj) nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation or problem |
| Summariy | (adj) trembling, quivering (often in a way that suggests fear or panic) |
| Distraught | (adj) very much excited, distracted as a result of emotion or mental conflict; mentally deranged |
| Credence | (n) belief, mental acceptance |
| Feckless | (adj) Lacking in spirit and strength; ineffectual |
| decry | (v) to condemn, express strong disapproval |
| accost | (v) to approach, speak to for the first time |
| Derogatory | (adj) tending to belittle or degrade; critical ( in an unfavorable sense) |
| Aversion | (n) dislike, distaste, inclination to avoid |
| Dissemble | (v) t0 disguise or concead; deliberately give a galse impression |
| Entrench | (v) fortify by diggin trenches' to place oneself in a strong defensize position; to establish firmly |
| Conversant | (adj) acquainted, closely familiar |
| Envince | (v) to display clearly to make evident |
| Propitous | (adj) having a good or favorable effect; ordering a good sign or portent for the future |
| Verbiage | (n) use of too many words; language that is wordy and inflated |
| Murky | (adj) dark gloomy obscure; lacking in clarity and precision |
| Propinquity | (n) nearness in place or time |
| Intractable | (adj) hard to manage, stubborn, not responsive to discipline |
| Piquant | (adj) stimulatiing to the taste of the mind; delightfully amusing |
| Utopian | (adj) founded upon or involving imaginary or ideal perfection; visionary (n) One who believes in the perfectibility of human society |
| Nefarious | (adj) Wicked or depraved, devoid of moral standards |
| viscous | (adj) having a gelatinous or gluey quality and thus tending to stick or adhere rather than to flow; suggestive of a gluey substance in lacking easy flow for fluidity |
| Unwonted | (adj) not usual or expected; notin character; rare |
| Primordial | (adj) existing or happening at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage |
| frenetic | (adj) frenzied, frantic, highly agitates |
| Disarray | (n) disorder, confusion (applied often to clother, and other aspects of personal apperance (v) to throw into disorder or confusion |
| Adversity | (n) misfortune, distress; hardship a disastrous experience |
| Dismantle | (v) to strip of dress, covering or equipment; to do away with; to take to pieces |
| Glean | (v) to gather something with difficulty and bit by bit ( leterally to gather the sma wuantites of grain left behind in a field by the reapers) |
| comnsummate | omplete, perfect, highest quality; to bring to a state of completion or perfection |
| incarcerate | v- to imprision, confine |
| bastion | n- fortified place, strong hold |
| enervate | to weaken, lessen in strength |
| flotsam | n- parts of a wrecked ship and its cargo found in wather that had been wrecked or discarded |
| factotum | n- a person engaged tp do all kinds of work |
| prepossessing | adj- pleasing, tending to create a favorable impression |
| recumbent | ad- in a reclining or laying down poeition |
| porcine | relating to the pig |
| ludicrous | ridiculous |
| mordant | adj- having a biting or penetrating quality |
| pusillanimous | adj cowardly, shamefully |
| nettle | n- a prickly or stinging plant |
| stratagen | n scheme to out with or deserve somone |
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