Heat Vocab #3

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effervescent

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effervescing; bubbling.
vivacious; gay; lively; sparkling.

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tantamount

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equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification

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antipathy

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a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
2.
an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
3.
an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.

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rudimentary

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pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
2.
of the nature of a rudiment; undeveloped or vestigial.
3.
primitive.

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charisma

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Theology . a divinely conferred gift or power.
2.
a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people.
3.
the special virtue of an office, function, position, etc., that confers or is thought to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability for leadership, worthiness of veneration, or the like.

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imperiousness

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domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
2.
urgent; imperative: imperious need.

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assimilate

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to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
2.
to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust: to assimilate the new immigrants.
3.
Physiology . to convert (food) to substances suitable for incorporation into the body and its tissues.

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ubiquity

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the state or capacity of being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresence: the ubiquity of magical beliefs.
2.
( initial capital letter ) Theology . the omnipresence of god or Christ.

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requisite

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required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.

2.
something requisite; a necessary quality, thing, etc.

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desiccated

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dehydrated or powdered: desiccated coconut.

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scrupulous

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having scruples; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled.
2.
punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact: a scrupulous performance.

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maimed

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to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
2.
to impair; make essentially defective: The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.

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sinew

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a tendon.
2.
Often, sinews. the source of strength, power, or vigor: the sinews of the nation.
3.
strength; power; resilience: a man of great moral sinew.

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chimney sweep

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a person whose business it is to clean out chimneys.

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expedite

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make (an action or process) happen sooner or be accomplished more

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pedagogy

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the method and practice of teaching, esp. as an academic subject or theoretical concept

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imperative

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of vital importance; crucial

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endorphin

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any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body's opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.

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quandary

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a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation

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penury

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extreme poverty; destitution

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self-abasement

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the belittling or humiliation of oneself :

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tattersall

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a woolen fabric with a pattern of colored checks and intersecting lines, resembling a tartan.

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volatile

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evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
2.
tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.

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adulterated

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render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance, typically an inferior one

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evocative

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bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind

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masochist

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the tendency to derive pleasure, esp. sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.

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porcine

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of, affecting, or resembling a pig or pigs

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diminutive

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extremely or unusually small

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extol

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praise enthusiastically

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anachronistic

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a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned :

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pretentious

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attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed

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infinitesimal

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extremely small

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sanguine

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cheerfully optimistic : they are not sanguine about the prospect.
• (in medieval science and medicine) of or having the constitution associated with the predominance of blood among the bodily humors, supposedly marked by a ruddy complexion and an optimistic disposition.

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vernacular

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the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region;; architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings

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Seminole

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a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, esp. the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
2.
either of the Muskogean languages spoken by the Seminoles, comprising Mikasuki and the Florida or Seminole dialect of Creek.

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ostentation

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pretentious and vulgar display, esp. of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice

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finesse

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extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
2.
skill in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; adroit and artful management: exceptional diplomatic finesse.
3.
a trick, artifice, or stratagem.
4.
Bridge, Whist . an attempt to win a trick with a card while holding a higher card not in sequence with it, in the hope that the card or cards between will not be played.

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proliferate

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to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
2.
to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively.

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ineffably

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too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words : the ineffable natural beauty of the Everglades.
• not to be uttered : the ineffable Hebrew name that gentiles write as Jehovah.