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| canon | a collection of works that through consensus has become praised and noted as the best of many |
| salvo | act of taking out weapons, arming |
| chaff | residue lef tover from processing/separating grain |
| paramilitary | military squads in addition, to supplement regular forces |
| bloc | group of people wiht a common interest or working towards a common goal |
| ascertain | to find something out |
| somnambulatory | being in a state of sleepwalking |
| huckster | a person who sells fruits and veggies on the street |
| humbugger | trickster, person who is a fraud |
| incursion | a sudden invasion or raid by enemy forces |
| etymologically | relating to the study of the origin of words and how their meanings have changed through time |
| cartography | map-making |
| suppliance | humility, earnestness |
| recondite | obscure, not well known, difficult to understand |
| vestigial | small piece of something that used to be much larger |
| abate | something percieved as hostile becomes less intense or widespread |
| girded | prepare for difficult or dangerous action |
| audacious | complete lack of respect, willing to take bold risks |
| mendicant | person who asks for help because of poverty |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| desultory | not connected to the main subject, with lack of definite purpose |
| languorous | producing weakness or weariness, listless, lethargic |
| parable | short fictitious story illustrating a moral or religiious principle |
| addled | thrown into confusion |
| disavow | deny responsibility, refuse to acknowledged |
| blithe | lacking thought or consideration, of a lighthearted character |
| chastened | corrected by punishment or suffering |
| whip | member of legislative body appointed by a political party to enforce party discipline |
| deluding | misleading or decieving the mind or judgement |
| filibuster | use of extreme tactics to delay or prevent an action, esp in a legislative assembly |
| grandolinquent | speaking or expressed ina lofty style, often to the point of being pompous |
| fulminate | to issue or pronounce wiht vehement denunciation, condemnation or the like |
| erudition | deep, extensive learning |
| engender | to cause ot exist or develop, to bring forth |
| conflagration | a large disastrous fire |
| trope | the changing definition |
| metastasize | to spread (usually used in reference to disease) |
| assuage | reduce the intensity of, reduce to a state of peace, calm, or quiet |
| asperity | roughness of manner or temper, bitterness |
| preilection | a favorable prepossesion, inclination, liking |
| enmity | hatred directed at a personal enemy |
| beneficence | active goodness or kindness |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| premonitory | giving previous warning or notice |
| staunch | firm and steadfast, faithful |
| dragnet | a system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminal suspects or wanted persons |
| retrofitting | an instance of modernising or expanding with new or modified parts, devices, systems or equipment |
| quagmire | difficult or precarious situation |
| trounced | defeated decisively, beaten |
| droll | amusingly odd or whimsically comical |
| scruples | uneasy feelings arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action |
| tartar | an unexpectedly formidable opponent |
| deplorable | worthy of severe condemnation or reproach |
| perfunctory | done routinely and with little interest or care |
| archetype | an original model after which others are patterned |
| flub | to botch, to handle badly, to ruin through ineptitude |
| sanctimony | feigned righteousness, hypocritical devoutness |
| aggrieved | distressed afflictied injured |
| psychosomatic | relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes |
| besieged | harrassed with requests |
| mettle | courage and fortitude; spirit |
| syntax | the pattern or formation of sentences in a language |
| surreptitiously | obtained/done/made by stealthy means |
| locution | a particular word, phrase or expression |
| proxy | a person authorized to act for another; an agent or substitute |
| snafus | a chaotic or confused situation |
| benighted | in a state of moral or intellectual darkness, unenlightened |
| titular | existing in name only, nominal |
| vociferous | given to noisy and vehement outcry |
| colloquial | characteristic of conversation esp familiar and informal conversation |
| didactic | intended to teach a moral lesson |
| flippant | smoothe, fluent |
| incisive | cutting piercing, having clear, decicive effectiveness |
| novitiate | the period of being a novice |
| surplice | a loose fitting white ecclesiastical gown with wide sleeves worn over a cassock |
| cassoc k | an ankle length garment with a close-fitting waist and sleeves worn by the clergy |
| ecclesiastical | appropriate to or to use in a church |
| adjunct | something attatched to another in a dependent or subordinate way |
| cuirass | a defense or protection |
| turgid | excessive in style or language, pompous |
| urbane | polite and polished in manner |
| lugubrious | mournful, often to an exaggerated degree |
| facetious | joking, often inappropriately |
| contentious | marked by a tendency to quarrel and dispute |
| impasse | a situation do difficult that no progress can be made, a deadlock or stalemate |
| plebeian | characteristic of commoners, of the lower classes |
| bougeoisie | the middle class |
| burgher | member of the middle class |
| bohemian | a person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional sandards or behavior |
| levity | lightness/gaity of mind, character, or behavior |
| fractiousness | tendencey to be peevishly quarrelsome or unruly |
| extemporizing | to speak wihtout special preparation |
| banns | the notice of an intended marriage given in the church |
| oculist | opthamologist or optometrist |
| supercilious | showing haughty disdain |
| anaemic | lacking vitality, listless, weak |
| prodigality | extreme abundance, lavishness |
| eddies | currents of water or air moving in a circular motion |
| echolalia | repetition of sounds |
| rumbustious | british synonym for rambunctious |
| loutish | resembling and awkward brutish person (lout) |
| scion | descendent, child |
| parodistic | marked by a style of imitation and ridicule for comic effect |
| impolitic | not shrewd or tactful |
| tenuous | having little substance or strenght |
| irascible | angry easily provoked to anger |
| ordnance | military supplies including weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles and maintainance equipment |
| envisage | to view or regard in a certain wpay |
| accoutrement | an accessory item of clothing or equipment |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will, to hand down |
| tacit | expressed without words or speech |
| stanch | stop the flow of blood from a wound |
| fortuitously | occurring by chance, luckily |
| adventitious | coming from another source, not inherent or innate |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence |
| vestibules | a passage between the outer door and the interior of a building |
| interminable | having, or seeming to have, no end |
