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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

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