50 Words - Set #3
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- Ostracize
- Exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance
- Empathy
- The action of understanding, being aware of the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
- Copacetic
- Very satisfactory
- Reprove
- To scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent
- Reprimand
- Censure formally usually from a position of authority
- Schizophrenia
- A psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought, perception, and behavior
- Rife
- Abundant, common. Prevalent especially to an increasing degree
- Surreptitious
- Done by secretive means
- Suppressed
- Subdued; kept from being circulated
- Ossify
- v. To become bone; to become rigidly conventional, to mold into a conventional pattern
- Excoriate
- To abrade, to wear the skin off; to denounce scathingly
- Niggle
- To be obsessed with trivialities; to quibble, to constantly find fault with
- Comport
- To behave (oneself) in a particular manner; to agree; to suit
- Commove
- To agitate; to move violently
- Pleonasm
- n. The use of an excess of words to express an idea when only a few words would make the same statement clear to anyone who could see with his own eyes; superfluity
- Exacerbate
- To make worse or more severe
- Mollify
- To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional tensity
- Viscous
- Thick; sticky
- Tout
- To publicly praise or promote
- Endemic
- Peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
- Acumen
- Quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
- Opaque
- Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
- Anomaly
- Deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality
- Abrogate
- To abolish, repeal, or nullify
- Abstruse
- Difficult to understand
- Abysmal
- Extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless
- Accolade
- An award or honor
- Acerbic
- Bitter, sour, severe
- Affable
- Easy to talk to; friendly
- Afford
- To permit or allow; to enable
- Aggregate
- Collection of things mixed together; the sum total
- Allocate
- To distribute, assign, or allot
- Aloof
- Standoffish, uninvolved, keeping one's distance
- Ameliorate
- To make better or more tolerable
- Anachronistic
- Out of place in time or history
- Anathema
- Something or someone loathed or detested
- Ancillary
- Subordinate; providing assistance
- Annul
- To make void, usually refers to marriage
- Anthropology
- The study of human cultures
- Antithetical
- In opposition, contrary to
- Apostate
- One who deserts his or her professed principles or faith
- Apotheosis
- Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something
- Appropriate
- To take without permission; to set aside for a particular use
- Archetype
- An original model or pattern
- Ardent
- Passionate
- Arsenal
- A storehouse of weapons
- Ascertain
- To determine with certainty; to find out definitely
- Assiduous
- Hardworking, diligent, busy
- Assuage
- To soothe, pacify, or relieve
- Attrition
- Gradual wearing away; a natural or expected decrease in size or number