English Vocab 1st 30
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- abjure
- verb formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
- abrogate
- verb revoke formally
- abstemious
- adj. sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; marked by temperance in indulgence
- acumen
- noun a tapering point; shrewdness shown by keen insight
- antebellum
- adj. belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
- auspicious
- adj. auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
- belie
- verb represent falsely; be in contradiction with
- bellicose
- adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
- bowdlerize
- verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- chicanery
- noun the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- churlish
- adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
- circumlocution
- noun an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
- circumnavigate
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
- deciduous
- - adj. (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season; (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth
- deleterious
- adj. harmful to living things
- diffident
- adj. lacking self-confidence; showing modest reserve
- enervate
- verb weaken mentally or morally; disturb the composure of
- enfranchise
- verb grant voting rights; grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
- epiphany
- noun a divine manifestation; twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus
- equinox
- noun either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth\'s equator and day and night are of equal length; (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
- evanescent
- adj. tending to vanish like vapor
- expurgate
- verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- facetious
- adj. cleverly amusing in tone
- fatuous
- adj. devoid of intelligence
- feckless
- adj. generally incompetent and ineffectual; not fit to assume responsibility
- fiduciary
- noun a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; adj. relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another)
- filibuster
- noun a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches; a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes; verb obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation
- gauche
- adj. lacking social polish
- gerrymander
- noun an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage); verb divide unfairly and to one\'s advantage; of voting districts
- hegemony
- noun the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others