CHROMOSOME
A circular strand of DNA which contains DNA info
Churlish
vulger
circumlocation
Wordy or unnecessary language.
Circumnavigate
To go around
deciduous
Falling of or shedding foliage in the winter
Deleterious Having a harmful effect
Diffident
Shy or lacking self-confidents.
Enervate
Weaken or destroy
Enfranchise
Epiphany
A sudden and profound realization.
Equinox
When the sun crosses the equator, making the length of day and night roughly equal.
Euro A basic unit of European currency
Evanescent Vanishing like a vapor
Expurgate
To remove objectionable material
Facetious Humorous
Fatuous Foolish or silly
Feckless
Lacking purpose
fiduciary
Holding something in trust for someone else.
Filibuster
The use of long-speechmaking to obstruct legislation.
Gamete
A reproductive cell
Gauche
Lacking in social grace, awkward
gerrymander
To organize voting districts so that one party has an advantage over the other.
Hegemony The dominance or strong influence of one
group or nation over others
The dominance or strong influence of one group or nation over others
hemoglobin
The iron-containing pigment in red blood cells.
Homogeneous
Uniform in structure or composition
Hubris
Overbearing pride
impeach
To make an accusation against a person.
incognito
With your identity hidden
Incontrovertible
Impossible to dispute.
inculcate
To impress something on the mind of someone through repetition.
interpolate
To insert between other elements or parts.
irony
The use of words to express something other than their meaning
jejune
Dull, not interesting
kinetic
Produced by motion
kowtow
To be servile
Laissez faire To not interfere with others
To not interfere with others
lexicon A vocabulary
A vocabulary
loquacious
Very talkative
lugubrious
Dismal or gloomy
metamorphosis
A dramatic change
moiety
A part, portion, or share
nihilism
The belief that all values are baseless: nothing is important or has worth
Nomenclature
a system of names used in art or science
nonsectarian Not related to a political or religious
group
Not related to a political or religious group
Omnipotent All-powerful
All-powerful
paradigm
Something that serves as a pattern or model.
plagiarize
To use and pass off others ideas as your own.
Precipitious Extremely steep like a precipice
Extremely steep like a precipice
quotidian
Commonplace or ordinary
recapitulate To repeat in a shorter form
To repeat in a shorter form
reparation
The acts of making amends from wrongdoing
sanguine Cheerfully optimistic
subjugate To conquer
supercilious Showing disdain (dislike)
tempestuous Characterized by violent changes in
emotion
totalitarian Imposing a government in which all
power rests with the political authority.
Unctuous Insincere earnestness or slippery
usurp To seize and hold by force, not legal
authority
vacuous Lacking intelligence
vehement Forceful or intense in expression
Vortex A spiral motion of fluid
winnow To separate the good from the bad.
wrought Put together/ created
xenophobe a person who dislikes that which is
foreign.
Foreshadowing Indication of what might happen next (as
in a story, play, etc)
flashbacks Breaks in the narrative which explore
earlier event.
Imply to indicate or suggest without being
explicitly stated
Infer to conclude or judge from evidence
Precarious Dangerous, unstable
Candid Honest, frank
refute To disprove or deny
obscure Unclear or clouded
pragmatic Practical
Connoisseur expert enough in a field to judge.
clandestine Secret
raze To destroy
implacable Unforgiving, relentless
culpability liability to blame
Acrimony
Harshness, sharpness in words
inadvertant Accidental, uninentional
mitigate
To make milder, less severe
Lethargic Tired, weak
stoic Indifference to pleasure or pain.
cryptic
Mysterious, puzzling
laud
To praise
respite
A rest, pause, or break
stringent
Strict, harsh, severe
desecrate
To Profane a holy place
fortuitous
Happening by chance or luck
virtuoso An accomplished musician
Apathy Lack of emotion or interest
didactic instructive
Didactic
Instructive, educational
peremptory
Demanding and leaving no choice
extraneous Unnecessary or irrelevant
deride
To ridicule or make fun of
remorse Regret, sadness tinged with grief
efface
To erase or wipe out
esoteric
Understood by only a select few
vilify
To speak of someone as if they were a villain
acquiesce To agree finally or to go along with
something after a struggle.
depravity
Moral corruption
profuse
Generous or excessive
nemesis
An avenging agent, one who inflict punishment.
Callousness
Insensitivity; hardness in minds, feelings.
Commiseration
A feeling or expression of Sympathy
Intrinsically
In it’s nature; without outside encouragement
Brevity
Shortness in speech or writing.
Appease
To bring to a state of peace or quiet
Perplexed
Being puzzled or confused.
Brood
Thinking unhappily on a subject.
Discourse Verbal communication
flagging Weakening or falling off.
Tenement A building or set of buildings built to a
low standard.