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| acumen | (n) quickness and keenness of judgment or insight |
| auspicious | (adj) attended by favorable circumstances, propitious; marked by success, prosperous |
| bowdlerize | (v) to remover material that is considered objectionable or offensive from (a book, for example); expurgate |
| churlish | (adj) of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar; having a bad disposition, surly |
| diffident | (adj) lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid |
| enervate | (v) to weaken or destroy the strength and vitality of |
| evanescent | (adj) vanishing or likely to vanish like a vapor |
| fiduciary | (adj) of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another; held in trust; of or consisting of legal tender, especially paper currency, authorized by a government but not based on or convertible into gold or silver |
| homogeneous | (adj) uniform in structure or composition; of the same or similar nature or kind; consisting of terms of the same degree or elements of the same dimension |
| incognito | (adj & adv) with one's identity disguised or concealed; (n) the identity assumed by a person whose actual identity is disguised or concealed |
| irony | (n) the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning; a literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect; incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| kinetic | (adj) of, relating to, or produced by motion; relating to or exhibiting kinesis (movement or activity of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light) |
| lugubrious | (adj) mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exagerrated or ludicrous degree |
| nanotechnology | (n) the science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from individual atoms and molecules |
| oligarchy | (n) government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families; those making up such a government; a state governed by a few persons |
| parabola | (n) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone or by the locus of points equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point not on the line |
| photosynthesis | (n) the process by which green plants and certain other organisms synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source, releasing oxygen as a byproduct |
| soliloquy | (n) a dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters; a specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse |
| tectonic | (adj) of or relating to the forces involved in forming the geological features of te earth's lithosphere; relating to construction or building; architectural |
| unctuous | (adj) characterized by affected, exagerrated, or insincere earnestness; having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment, slippery; containing or composed of oil or fat |
