Wordly Wise: Lessons 6-10

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Ameliorate

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To make better; to become better; to improve

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Baleful

Back 2

Expressing hatred or evil; harmful, ominous

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Berate

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To criticize vigorously; to scold vehemently

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Circumvent

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To avoid through craftiness

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Compunction

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A feeling of uneasiness or anxiety caused by guilt

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Condone

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To overlook or accept without punishment to pardon or excuse.

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Diminutive

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Very small; tiny

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Euphemism

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A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant.

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Expendable

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Able to be used up and then discarded or replaced

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Heresy

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The expression of shocking or unacceptable views

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Infirmity

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Physical or mental weakness or defect

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Profane

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1. To treat with scorn or irreverence
2. Disrepectful of sacred things
3. Not connected withreligion; worldly

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Recompense

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To pay or compensate

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Repast

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Food and drink; a meal

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Servitude

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A lack of freedom; forced labor

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Castigate

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To punish by criticizing sharply; to berate

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Colloquial

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Characterized by informal language

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Epitaph

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The words carved on a tombstone in memory of the deceased

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Exodus

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A mass departure

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Inter

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To put in a grave; to bury

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Lacerate

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To tear or cut roughly

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Largesse

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The act of giving generously; gifts

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Obituary

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A notice of someone's death, such as in a newspaper, usually with a breif summary of that person's life

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Omnivorous

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Eating all kinds of food, including both animal and vegetable food, taking in everything available

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Permeate

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To spread throughout, to pass through

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Rendition

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An interpretation or translation; a performance

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Resurgence

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A rising again to life, use, acceptance, or prominence, a revival

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Stereotype

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A generalization that is used to characterize a person without acknowledging individual differences

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Stipend

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A regular and fixed amount of pay for work done or to help cover living or work expenses

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Subservient

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Serving or acting in a susbordinate manner servile

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Adjacent

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Near or next to; adjoining

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Beset

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To suround or to attack repeatedly; to trouble or weigh down

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Cede

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To give up or transfer, especially by treaty or formal agreement

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Circuitous

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Roundabout; indirect

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Desultory

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Proceeding or carried out in an aimless or random way

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Galvanize

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To excite or arouse action

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Implement

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A tool or instrument; to carry out

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Inconsequential

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Lacking importance or worth; unable to make an impact; trivial

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Magnitude

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Greatness of size, power, or infulence

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Materialize

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To become real or actual, to appear in physcial form, especially suddenly

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Muster

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A gathering, usually of military forces, to suummon or call forth

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Prohibitive

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Serving to restrain action or discourage use of

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Reminisce

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To think or talk about one's past, the act of remembering

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Vanguard

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The leading or forward position in a movement

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Visionary

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A person who is given to ideas that are not currently realistic; a dreamer

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Cautionary

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Offering or serving as a warning

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Constrain

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To confine, inhibit, or hold back by force or necessity

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Flotilla

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A fleet of boats of small ships

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Gossamer

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Thin, sheer fabric resembling gauze, a fine, fuilmy substance made of strands of cobweb

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Ignominious

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Marked by, deserving or causing shame or disgrace

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Incur

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To bring upon oneself something undesirable such as a dept

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Liquidate

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To settle the affairs of a business; to convert into cash, to get ride of; to kill or destroy.

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Magnate

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An important, often wealthy, person prominent in a large industry or business.

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Misnomer

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A name that does ot fit.

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Onerous

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Burdensome; oppressive

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Pandemonium

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A state or place of great confusion or uproar

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Quixotic

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Romantic and idealistic, but impractical

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Teacious

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Holding fast; persistent in adhering to something valued or habitual

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Vestige

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A trace of something that once was present

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Zephyr

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A light, gentle breeze

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Attest

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To declare or be evidece of something as true, genuine, or accuurate

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Axiom

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A statement or principle that requires no proof because its truth is obvious

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Churlish

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Lacking good manners; rude, impolite

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Concoct

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To make up, prepare, or invent

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Derivative

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Something that grows out of or results from an earlier form or condition

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Differentiate

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To see the difference; to distinguish, to be or make different

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Disparage

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To criticize in a negative, disrespectful manner

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Dissipate

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To break up and spread out so thinly as to disappear; to scatter or be scattered, to spend or use foolishly

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Esoteric

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Not generally known or understood; familiar to only a realatively small number of people

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Olfactory

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Relation tot the sense of smell

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Plethora

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Too great a number; an excess

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Refurbish

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To make like new; to renovate

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Secrete

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To produce and give off, to place as to be hidden from view; to conceal

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Vagary

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A departure from the normal, expected course, a whim or unpredictable action

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Volatile

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Evaporating quickly, changing readily, exlosive, unpredictable