Actuate

(Verb)

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1.  To cause to put machine into mechanical motion.

2.  To cause to take action.

 By flipping the light switch you cam actuate the lights.

Brackish

(Adjective)

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1.  Made up of a mixture of fresh water and sea water

2.  Having an unpleasent taste

The salt in sea water makes it taste very brackish.

Cognitive

(Adjective)

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1.  Relating to the mental process such as awareness, remembering, and reasoning.

The accident has impaired some of her cognitive    functions.

Dissertation

(Noun)

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1. A lengthy, usually written discussion of a topic, often for a college or university degree.

The woman had to do a dissertion on why she wanted a degree in that subject.

Dolorous

(Adjective)

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1.  Causing or marked by pain, misery, or sorrow

Her grandfathers death caussed her to feel doloruos.

Endemic

(Adjective)

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1.  Widespread or peculiar to certain place or among a certain people.

Dieseases are very peculiar in africa.

Fecund

(Adjective)

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1.  Producing or capable of producing many offspring.

2.  Intellectually or artistically productive; creative.

In africa they are well know for being fecund.

Genealogy

(Noun)

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1.  The history of a family and how it members are related to one another;also the study of such family histories.

At or family reunion we discuss our genealogy.

_Inebrated

(Adjective)

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1.  Deprived of good sense of judgement, esoically as the result of imbibing alcohol. 

At the after party the teenagers inebrated the alcohol. 

Insidious

(adjective) 

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1.  Seemingly harmless while actually being dangerous; treacherous or deceptive.

2.  Spreading harmfully in a subtle or gradual way.

The use of cell phones have made teenager very insidious to the old ways of technology.

Interloper

(Noun)

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1.  One who intrudes or interferes in the affairs of others.

The tribe considered the tourist interlopers and resented their stares.

Percursor

(Noun)

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1.  A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner

2.  In a household man is considered the percursor.

Presentiment

(Noun)

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1.  A feeling that something is about to occur.

When the office called, I had a presentiment that the principal was calling me.

ramification

(Noun)

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1.  An outgrowth of a simple idea or plan: a resulting development or consequence. 

Eliminating the position of Department Chair has ramifications for all students in social studies courses.

Torpor

(Noun)

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1.  A state of mental or physical sluggish or inactivity.

    Working in extreme heat makes a person feel torpid.