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Undergraduate 4
05/30/2011

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Term
Abhorrence
Definition

(Noun)


Hate

Term
Bigot
Definition

(Noun)

 

Someone who is intolerantly devoted to one's opinion and prejudices; some who regards (social) groups with intolerance and hatred.

Term
Hubris
Definition

(Noun)

 

Exaggerated pride or expression.

Term
Lassitude
Definition

(Noun)

 

Fatigue (Listlessness)

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Fervor
Definition

(Noun)

 

Intensity of feeling or expression.

Term
Zealot
Definition

(Noun)

 

Someone who is Zealous- Marked by fervent partisanship for a person, cause, or an ideal.

Term
Frenetic
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Frensied, frantic.

Term
Malinger
Definition

(Verb)

 

To pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid work/ duty).

Term
Vigor
Definition

(Noun)

 

Active bodily or mental strength or force.

Term
Spurt
Definition

(Verb)

 

To gush forth; to expel in a steam or jet (squirt).

 

(Noun)

 

A short period of time; sudden brief burst of effort.

Term
Noisome
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell; highly obnoxious or objectionable; harmful.

Term
Scintillate
Definition

(Verb)

 

To emit sparks; sparkle or spark.

Term
Pare
Definition

(Verb)

 

To trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part.

Term
Saunter
Definition

(Verb)

 

To walk about in an idle or leisurely manner; stroll.

Term
Precipitous
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging in rise or fall.

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Strident
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound, also: commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality.

Term
Laudable
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Worthy of praise: commendable. 

Term
Pandemonium
Definition

(Noun)

 

infernal regions (hell); a wild uproar (tumult).

Term
Tumult
Definition

(Noun)

 

Disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd, usually with uproar and confusion of voices; Riot.

Term
Posthumous
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Being born after the death of father; published after death of author; following or occurring after death.

Term
Lamentation
Definition

(Noun)

 

The act of mourning aloud; expressing sorrow, mourning, or regret.

Term
Soporific
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Causing or tending to cause sleep.

Term
Elegy
Definition

(Noun)

 

A song or pem expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for one who is dead.

Term
Filigree
Definition

(Noun)

 

Ornamental openwork of delicate or intricate design; embellishment.

 

(Verb)

 

To adorn with or as if filigree.

Term
Supplicant
Definition

(Noun)

 

Someone who asks earnestly and humbly; someone who makes a humble entreaty.

 

(Verb)

 

To make a humble entreaty.

Term
Beseeching
Definition

(Verb)

 

To beg for urgently or anxiously; to request earnestly: implore.

Term
Benefactor
Definition

(Noun)

 

Someone who helps another person, group, etc. by giving money.

Term
Cordial
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Warmly and genially affable; tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; sincerely or deeply felt.

 

(Noun)

 

A stimulating medicine or drink; liqueur.

Term
Pliable
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking.

Term
Lascivious
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Lewd, lustful.

Term
Mysticism
Definition

(Noun)

 

Vague speculation: belief without sound basis; the belief that direct knowledge of God/spirtual truth or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience.

Term
Guile
Definition

(Noun)

 

deceitful cunning.

Term
Exemplary
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Serving as a pattern; deserving imitation (because of excellence); serving as an example, instance, or illustration.

Term
Exhuberant
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Extreme or excessive in degree, size, or extent, joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic; produced in extreme: plentiful.

Term
Ignominious
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame: dishonorable; deserving shame or infamy.

Term
Sagacious
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Of keen and farsighted penetration and judgement: discerning; caused by or indicating acute discernment. [Discern- showing insight or understanding.]

Term
Penury
Definition

(Noun)

 

A cramping or oppressive lack or resources (money); extreme and often niggardly fugality.

Term
Niggardly
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Grudgingly mean about spending or granting; provided in meanly limited supply.

Term
Prescient
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Foreknowledge of events; divine omniscience; human anticipation of the course of event.

Term
Impartial
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Not partial or biased; treating or affecting all equally.

Term
Plummet
Definition

(Verb)

 

To fall perpendicular; to drop sharply and abruptly.

Term
Abet
Definition

(Verb)

 

To actively second and encourage (activity or plan); to assist or support in the achievemnet of a purpose.

Term
Inscribe
Definition

(Verb)

 

To write, engrave, or print as a lasting record.

Term
Waver
Definition

(Verb)

 

To vacillate irresolutely between choices: fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction; to weave or sway unsteadily to and fro.

Term
Voracious
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Having a huge appetite; excessively eager: insatiable.

Term
Pragmatic
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Relating to matters of fact or practival affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters: practical as opposed to idealistic.

Term
Gambit
Definition

(Noun)

 

A chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position; a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point; a calculated move.

Term
Alloy
Definition

(Verb)

 

To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure.

Term
Appropriate
Definition

(verb)

 

To take for one's own use, confiscate.

Term
Arrest, Arresting
Definition

(Verb, Adjective)

 

To suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait.

Term
August
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Majestic, venerable.

[Majestic- having or exhibiting sovereign power, authoriy, or dignity. Venerable- deserving regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference.]

Term
Bent
Definition

(Noun)

 

Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency.

Term
Broach
Definition

(Verb)

 

Bring up, announce, begin to talk about.

Term
Brook
Definition

(Verb)

 

To tolerate, endure, countenance.

Term
Cardinal 
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Major, as in cardinal sin.

Term
Chauvinist
Definition

(Noun)

 

A blindly devoted patriot.

Term
Color
Definition

(verb)

 

To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth.

Term
Consequential
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important).

Term
Damp
Definition

(Verb)

 

To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound.

Term
Die
Definition

(Noun)

 

A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop.

Term
Essay
Definition

(Verb)

 

To test or try; attempt, experiment.

Term
Exact
Definition

(Verb)

 

To demand, call for, require, take.

Term
Fell
Definition

(Verb)

 

To cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees.

 

(Adjective)

 

Inhumanly cruel: Fell beasts surrounded the explorers.

Term
Flag
Definition

(Verb)

 

To sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits.

Term
Flip
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Sarcastic, impertinet (not relevant), as in flippant: a flip remark.

Term
Ford
Definition

(Verb)

 

To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream.

Term
Grouse
Definition

(Verb)

 

To complain or grumble.

Term
Guy
Definition

(Noun/Verb)

 

A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guy.

Term
Intimate
Definition

(Verb)

 

To imply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?

Term
List
Definition

(Verb)

 

To tilt or lean to one side.

Term
Lumber
Definition

(Verb)

 

To move heavily and clumsily.

Term
Meet
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.

Term
Milk
Definition

(Verb)

 

To exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of.

Term
Mince
Definition

(verb)

 

To pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don't mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe.

Term
Nice
Definition

(adjective)

 

Exacting, fastidiuous, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between th two cases.

Term
Obtain
Definition

(Adjective)


To be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards are no longer obtain.

Term
Occult
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension.

Term
Pedestrian
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Commonplace, trite (boring from much use), unremarkable, quotidian (occuring everyday).

Term
Pied
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamilin was so called because of his multicolored coat.

Term
Plastic
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Moldable, pliable, not rigid.

Term
Pine
Definition

(Verb)

 

To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn.

Term
Pluck
Definition

(Noun)

 

Courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war.

Term
Prize
Definition

(Verb)

 

To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him.

Term
Rail
Definition

(Verb)

 

To complain about bitterly: Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons.

Term
Rent
Definition

(Verb, Noun)

 

Torn, past of rend (to remove from place by violence): He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a larger rent in the fabric.

Term
Quail
Definition

(Verb)

 

To lose courage, turn frightened.

Term
Qualify
Definition

(verb)

 

To limit: Let me qualify that statement.

Term
Sap
Definition

(Verb)

 

To enervate or weaken the vitality of: The race sapped my strength.

 

(Noun)

 

A fool or nitwit: Don't be a sap!

Term
Scurvy
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Contemptible, despicable: He was an scurvy old reprobate.

Term
Singular
Definition

(Adjective)

 

Exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job.

Term
Stand
Definition

(Noun)

 

A group of trees.

Term
Steep
Definition

(verb)

 

To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep.

Term
Strut
Definition

(Noun)

 

The supporting structural cross-part of a wing.

Term
Table
Definition

(Verb)

 

To remove (as a parliament motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later.

Term
Tender
Definition

(Verb)

 

To proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation.

Term
Waffle
Definition

(Verb)

 

To equivocate (to avoid committing oneself in what one says); to change one's position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind. 

Term
Wag
Definition

(Noun)

 

Wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag.

Term
Abscond
Definition

(verb)

 

To depart clandestinely (marked by, held in, or conducted in secrecy); to steal off and hide.

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