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| Irony | n. the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; an expression of utterance marked by such a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; the incongruity between what might be expected, and what actualy occurs |
| Bane | n. cause of death, destruction or ruin |
| Nemesis | n. an unbeatable rical, as in sport; one that inflicts relentless destruction or vengance |
| Cretin | n. an idiot |
| Charlatan | n. fraud; quack; con man |
| Veritable | a. unquestionable; true |
| Bombastic | a. being grandiloquen and pompous in speech and writing |
| Rubicon | n. a limit that when passed or exceeded permits no return |
| Catharsis | n. purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| Hyperbolic | a. exagerating |
| Moot | a. of no practicle importance; academic |
| Impeccable | a. flawless; entirely without sin |
| Catagorical | a. unconditional; absolute |
| Myopia | n. nearsightedness; short sightedness in planning or thinking |
| Enigma | n. a puzzle; mystery |
| Exacerbate | v. to make worse |
| Fiasco | n. a complete failure |
| Sordid | a. vile; filthy; squalid |
| Obsequious | a. overly attentice, servile, fawning, sycophantic |
| Futile | a. useless; hopeless |
| Anomaly | n. an aberration, an irregularity, a deviation |
| Pundit | n. an authority or critic |
| Rigorous | a. strict; harsh; severe |
| Squander | v. to waste |
| Insatiable | a. hard or impossible to satisfy; greedy; avaricious |
| Charisma | n. a magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
| Perfunctory | a. done without care; routine |
| Expedite | v. to speed up or ease the progress of |
| Paradox | n. something apparently contradictory in nature; looks false but is true |
| Egrigious | a. conspicuously bad, flagrant, outrageous |
| Resignation | n. unresisting acceptance; passive submission |
| Palpable | a. capable of being touched; obvious; tangible |
| Impervious | a. not allowing anything to pass through |
| pyrrhic | a. making a victory set off by stagggering losses |
| placebo | n. substances containg no medication and given merely to humor a patient |
| Insolent | a. arrogant; insulting |
| Audacity | n. boldness; recklessness; daring impertinance |
| Adamant | a. stubborn; unyeilding; completely inflexible |
| Pragmatic | a. practical, down to earth; based on experience rather than theory |
| Volatile | a. quick to evaporate; highly unstable; explosive |
| Instigate | v. to provoke; to stir up |
| comprehensive | a. covering or including everything |
| Enormity | n. extreme evil; a hideous offense |
| Teleological | a. goverened by a grand design; following a plan |
| Livid | a. extremely angry |
| Ubiquitous | a. being everywhere at the same time |
| Preclude | v. to prevent from ever happening |
| Ramification | n. consequence; a branching out |
| Tirade | n. a bitter, prolonged speech |
| Dormant | a. inactive; as though asleep |
| Reiterate | v. to say again; to repeat |
| Alacrity | n. cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
| Relegate | v. to banish; to send away |
| Decorum | n. appropriatness or behaviour or conduct |
| Hubris | n. excessive pride; arrogance |
| Subjugate | v. subdue and dominate; to enslave |
| Deference | n. submission to another's will; respect, courtesy |
| Libel | n. a written or published falsehood, specificaly one that knowingly disregards the truth, that injures the reputation or someone |
| Turpitude | n. shamefull wickedness; depravity |
| Noxious | a. harmful; offensive |
| Facetious | a. humerous; not serious; slumsily humorous |
| Duplicity | n. The act of being two faced |
| Succinct | a. brief and to the poin; concise |
| Adulterate | v. to contaminate; to make impure |
| Nebulous | a. vague; hazy; indistinct |
| Despot | n. tyrant |
| Discern | v. to percieve clearly with mind or senses |
| Requisite | a. required, necessary |
| Unequivocal | a. admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding, clear |
| Juxtapose | v. to place side by side |
| Brevity | n. briefness |
| Vehement | a. intense, forcefull, violent |
| Lionize | v. to treat as a celebrity |
| Lucrative | a. profitable; yielding financial gain |
| Heinous | a. outrageously wicked or evil |
| Trite | a. overused and commonplace; hackneyed |
| Anachronism | n. out of date person or thing; attribution of a custom, event, etc. to the wrong time period |
| Pensive | a. dreamily thoughtful |
| Daunt | v. to make fearful, intimidate |
| Inherent | a. part of the essential nature of something, intrinsic |
| Conducive | a. promoting |
| Surreptitious | a. secret; sneaky; hidden |
| Inure | v. to make used to, especialy something undesirable; to accustom |
| Emulate | v. to imitate, rival |
| Euphemism | n. a mild expression used in place of an unpleasant one |
| Plethora | n. superabundance; excess |
| Speculate | v. to meditate on a given subject; to reflect, especialy without sufficient knowledge or evidence |
| Conundrum | n. a difficult and complicated problem |
| Insipid | a. lacking excitement, stimulation or intrest; dull |
| Permeate | v. to spread or flow throughout; pervade |
| Eponym | n. a person or thing whose name is or is thought to be the source of a name of something |
| Tedious | a. boring; tiring; repetitive |
| Construe | v. to interpret |
| Fabrication | n. a lie; something made up |
| Impetuous | a. impulsive; extremely impatient |
| Conjure | v. to summon into being as if by magic |
| Admonish | v. to caution against specific faults; warn; scold |
| Beset | v. to harass; surround |
| Caveat | n. warning or caution |
| Indignation | n. anger aroused by something mean, unjust or unworthy |
| Assiduous | a. unceasing; persistent; diligent |
| Iconoclast | n. one who attacks or seeks to overthrow traditional or popular images |
| Presumptuous | a. excessively forward or confident; arrogant |
| Prodigious | a. impressively great in size, force or extent |
| Articulate | a. effective; distinct; speaking in clear, expressive speech |
| Illumination | n. spiritual or intellectual enlightenment |
| Deride | v. to make fun of |
| Contempt | n. bitter scorn; disdain |
| Predicate | v. to base or establish |
| Mundane | a. of or typical of this world; ordinary |
| Embellish | v. to beautify; adorn, add intrest to with fictitious details |
| Erudite | a. learned; scholarly |
| Debacle | n. a sudden disastrous collaps, downfall or defeat; root; a total, often ludicrous failure |
| Dubious | a. causing doubt or uncertainty; questionable as to quality or validity |
| Empathy | n. identification with and understanding of anothers situation, feelings, and motives |
| Disparity | n. the condition of being unequal in rank, age, or degree; difference |
| Imminent | a. impending, about to happen. |
| Precedent | n. an act or instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similair cases |
| Glut | n. surplus; an overabundance |
| Ameliorate | v. to make better or more tollerable |
| Digress | v. to stray from the main subject |
| Lexicon | n. a dictionary; a stock of terms used in a particular proffesion, subject or style; vocab |
| Incorrigible | a. incapable of being corrected or reformed |
| Sporadic | a. occuring at iregular intervals |
| crux | n. a crucial or vital moment; critical point |
| Dissonance | n. lack of harmony or agreement; discord |
| Condone | v. to overlook voluntarily; to forgive |
| Pertinent | a. related to the matter at hand; relevant |
| Canon | n. an authoritative list |
| Gratuitous | a. unecessary or unwaranted |
| Prudent | a. cautious; careful |
| Cogent | a. powerfuly convincing |
| Minion | n. an obsequious follower or dependant; sycophant |
| Feasible | a. capable of being accomplished |
| Deleterious | a. harmful; having an injurious effect |
| Allusion | n. an indirect reference; often to a literary work; a hint |
| Ponderous | a. having great weight; massive |
| Consumate | a. perfect; complete; supremely skillful |
| Exorbitant | a. exceeding the appropriate limits or boundaries; immoderate |
| Credulity | n. a disposition to believe to readily; gullibility |
| Truncate | v. to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| Preempt | v. to appropriate, seize or act for oneself before others; to displace; to gain a preeminent position in a situation |
| Serendipity | n. accidental good luck |
| Antiquated | a. so old as to be no longer useful or suitable |
| Cornucopia | n. an overflowing store; abundance |
| Reverance | n. veneration; a feeling of profound awe and respect |
| Defunct | a. having ceased to live or exist |
| Sesquipedalian | a. long and ponderous; polysylabic; given to using long words |
| Superflous | a. beyond what is required or sufficient; extra |
| Ominous | a. menacing; threatening; of or being an omen, especialy an evil one |
| Blatant | a. unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring; flagrant |
| Nuance | n. a subtle shade of difference |
| Allege | v. to assert without proof |
| Windfall | n. a sudden and unexpected peice of good fortune or personal gain |
| Definitive | a. precisely defining; authoritative and complete |
| Epitome | n. a representative or example of a class type |
| Belie | v. to give a false impression of; to contradict |
| Vindicate | v. to clear from all blame or suspicion; to justify |
| Defile | V. to make filthy or dirty; to polute |
| Caustic | a. marked by a sharp and bitter wit |
| Propogate | v. to cause to multipy; to make known or publicized |
| Supplant | v. to take the place of; to supercede |
| Contentious | a. controversial or confrontational |
| Eclectic | a. consisting of materials from diverse sources |
| Ephemeral | a. lasting for a brief time; temporary; transient |
| Precipitate | v. to cause to happen before anticipated or required |
| Prevalent | a. widely or commonly occuring or existing |
| Spurious | a. lacking authenticity or validit; false |
| Acrimonious | a. bitter or ill-natured; especialy in tone or manner |
| Supercilious | a. haughty; patronizing |
| Ostentatious | a. excessively conspicuous; showing off |
| Mellifluous | a. sweetly flowing |
| Crepitation | n. a cracking or rattling sound, especialy form cellophane |
| Clandestine | a. secret; sneaky, concealedand usualy up to no good |
| Cumbersome | a. difficult to handle because of weght or bulk; unweildy |
| Mitigate | v. to appease; moderate |
| Martyr | n. a person who makes great sacrafices or suffers in order to further a cause or belief; a person who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy |
| Sanctimony | n. feigned piety or righteousness; hypocritical high mindedness |
| Legion | a. consisting of a large number; mulitudinous |
| Vex | v.to annoy; pester; confuse |
| Manifest | a. visible; evident |
| Vindictive | a. seeking revenge |
| Impasse | n. a passage open only at one end; situation offering no escape |
| Truism | n. a self-evident or obvious truth |
| Resolute | a. determined; firm; unwavering |
| Bereft | a. deprived or left desolate; especialy through death |
| Zeal | n. enthusiams; ardor; fervor |
| Malefactor | n. an evildoer |
| Watershed | n. a critical point that serves as a dividing line |
| Censure | v. to blame; critize |
| Periphery | n. outside boundary; unimportant aspect of a subject |
| Iniquity | n. wickedness; sinfulness |
| Cryptic | a. having an ambiguous or hidden meaning; mystifying |
| Lugubrious | a. mournful, especialy to an exagerated or ludicrous degree |
| Cerebral | a. appealing to the workings of the intellect |
| Inexorable | a. not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; unyeilding |
| Specious | a. deceptively attractive |
| Mnemonic | relating to, assisting or designed to assist the memory |
| Respite | n. a short interval or rest or relief |
| Sisyphean | a. marking an accomplishment rewarded by more work |
