Wordly Wise 13 & 14
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- acolyte
- follower; altar boy
- atavism
- reverting back to the traits of one's ancestors
- bedizen
- gaudily adorn
- canto
- division of a poem
- crevice
- narrow crack
- deify
- treat as godlike
- ductile
- capable of being drawn into wire; easily led
- ennobling
- uplifting
- flotsam
- floating wreckage
- gubernatorial
- for state governor
- lionize
- treat as a celebrity
- moratorium
- legally-granted delay in the payment of debts; suspension of activity
- obituary
- notice of a person's death
- prognosticate
- predict
- raconteur
- storyteller
- sybarite
- pleasure-loving person
- unwonted
- unaccustomed
- ague
- fever
- banal
- triste
- boon
- welcome benefit; request; close
- clairvoyant
- supposedly able to perceive things not ordinarily present to the senses
- cyst
- small, pouchlike growth
- demagogue
- rabble-rouser
- egoism
- the belief in the all-importance of oneself
- exiguous
- scanty
- gloaming
- twilight
- impropriety
- improper act
- lupine
- wolflike
- narcotic
- drug
- onomatopoeia
- words imitative of natural sounds
- propound
- propose
- rapprochement
- establishment of friendly relations
- talisman
- good-luck charm