Vocab

Front 1

Ascertain

Back 1

to find out definitely; learn with certainty or

assurance; determine

Front 2

Browbeat

Front 3

Corroborate

Back 3

to make more certain; confirm

Front 4

Distaff

Back 4

a staff with a cleft end for holding wool,

flax, etc., from which the thread is drawn

in spinning by hand

Front 5

Duress

Back 5

compulsion by threat or force; coercion;

constraint

Front 6

Eccentricity

Back 6

an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct

Front 7

Ex Cathedra

Back 7

from the seat of authority; with authority:

used especially of those pronouncements

of the pope that are considered infallible.

Front 8

Expunge

Back 8

to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate

Front 9

Garish

Back 9

crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or

elaborate, as clothes or decoration

Front 10

Lichen

Back 10

any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union

with an alga and having a greenish, gray,

yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows

in leaflike, crust like, or branching forms on

rocks, trees, etc

Front 11

Mortify

Back 11

to humiliate or shame, as by injury to

one's pride or self-respect

Front 12

Muse

Back 12

to think or meditate in silence, as on some

subject

Front 13

Perforate

Back 13

to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like

Front 14

Pinion

Back 14

a gear with a small amount of teeth

Front 15

Purloin

Back 15

to take dishonestly; steal

Front 16

Sibilant

Back 16

hissing

Front 17

Spurious

Back 17

not genuine, authentic, or true; not from

the claimed, pretended, or proper source;

counterfeit

Front 18

Temerity

Back 18

reckless boldness; rashness

Front 19

Unmitigated

Back 19

not mitigated; not softened or lessened

Front 20

Volition

Back 20

the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing