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SPEAK
vocab to know and use
36
Language - English
Undergraduate 3
05/14/2013

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Destier
Definition
A war horse
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Lasivious
Definition
gven to or expressing lust, expressing sexaul desires
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Myriad
Definition
countless or in great number
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Aberrant
Definition
departing from the normal standard
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Eschew
Definition
Desperatly avoid using
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Harbringer
Definition
a herald, a foreshadow
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Attar
Definition
a perfume
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Erroneous
Definition
Wrong, incorrect
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Insidious
Definition
Proceeding in gradual subtle way, but with harmfull effects
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Extirpate
Definition
Whipe out, destroy
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Ascetic
Definition
in self denial as a measure of self or spiritual disipline
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Quixotic
Definition
From don Quiote, foolishly impracticle in the pursuit of ideals
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Lacotic
Definition
manner of speaking using few words
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Ameliorate
Definition
to become better, self improve
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Copses
Definition
a small thicket of trees and shrubs
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Iterate
Definition
wont get it right the first time
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Patriarchly
Definition
man is head of hoursehold
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Dialectic
Definition
a socratic meathod of intellectual investigation exposing false beliefs nad eliciting the truth
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Econmic liberalism
Definition
the inevitablity of progress and ultimtley a market utopia
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Jauggernaut
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a belief o r instatution that elicits blind destructive devotion to which others are sacrificed. All crushed in its path
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Patina
Definition
sheen on any surface created by use or age
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Nomenklatura
Definition
the hirearchy of senior positions in the buerocracy of the communist party
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Agglomeration
Definition
Concentrated clusters of development collecing in mass
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Sybaritism
Definition
a person devoted to leasure and pleaseure
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Xenophobia
Definition
fear of what is differetn
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Aphelion
Definition
part of orbit farthest from the sun
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Perhelion
Definition
closest to the sun
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Salient
Definition
most noteable and important
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Normative
Definition
Describing an existing norm or standard
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Perverse
Definition
counter productive
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Efficacious
Definition
ability to have the desired effect
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Khantian
Definition
Immanual Khant, german philosppher. Dentilogical ethical theoroy, said an action is not intrinsically good. It is only good if the moral framework behind that action is good.
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Usurp
Definition
to take without right
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Augean
Definition
extreamly formiddable or difficult
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Catchism
Definition
oral instruction
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Sadanpalus
Definition
last king of assyria, slothlike and self indulgent, immortalized in romantic art. Dressed in drag and was flamoyant
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