80 WODS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Neophyte | noun - a new convert one just beginning a new line of work, beginner, novice |
| Ablution | noun - washing of the body expecially as a religious ceremony |
| Obfuscate | verb - to cloud over; obscure made dark of unclear |
| Punctilious | adj - bery careful about every detail of behavoir; very exact scrupulous |
| Esoteric | adj - intended for or understood by only a chosen few as an inner group of disciplines or initiates |
| Nefarious | very - wicked, villainous |
| Ordain | verb - to put in order/arrange; to order/deree; to invest with office of minister/priest |
| Efface | verb - erase, wipe out, obliterate |
| Tepid | adj - to be slightly warm, lukewarm |
| Supine | adj - lying on the backe, face upward |
| Sartorial | adj - of or relating to clothing or dress |
| Acrid | adj - stinging, sharp, bitter, or irritating to taste or smell; bitter or sarcastic in speech, etc. |
| Consternation | noun - a great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered |
| Effigy | noun - a portrait, statue, or the like, especially of a person |
| Truncate | verb - to cut off a part of; shortened by cutting |
| Supercilious | adj - arrogant, haughty facial expression |
| Ubiquitous | adj - present/seeming to be present, everywhere at the same time |
| Banal | adj - Dull or stale from overuse |
| Innocuous | adj - does not injure of harm; harmless |
| Renounce | verb - to give up (claim, right, belief) |
| Cavalcade | a procession of horsesmen or carriages - noun |
| surrepitious | done, gotten, made, etc. in a secret, stealthy way - adj. |
| Strident | harsh sounding; shrill, grading - adj. |
| Solicitous | showing care or concern, attention too - adj. |
| Discomfit | to frustrate the plans or expectations; to make uneasy; disconcert - verb |
| Anomaly | departure from the regular arrangement, a general rule. An unusual method or abnormality - noun |
| Diffident | lacking self confidence, timid, shy - |
| Cloister | place of religious seclusion - noun//to seclude or confine in - verb |
| Abate | to make less in amount, degree, force, etc.; to deduct, to reduce - verb |
| Impunity | freedom or exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm - noun |
| Rebuff | a blunt, abrupt refusal of offered advise or help - noun//to refuse bluntly:snub - verb |
| Provincial | of or belonging to a province//narrow minded or unsophisticated person -adj |
| Talisman | something bearing engraved figures or symbols thought to bring good luck, keep away from evil - anything thought to have magic power, a charm -- noun |
| Obstinate | Unreasonably determined to have ones way, not yielding to reason or plea; stubborn - adj |
| Luminous | giving off light, filled with light. Intellectually brilliant - adj |
| Estuary | arm of the sea where salt water meets fresh water - noun |
| Diaphanous | so fine or gauzy in texture, vague or indistinct - adj |
| Ascetic | a person who leads a life of contemplation or self-denial - adj |
| Lurid | deathly pale, wan; glowing through a haze; vivid in a harsh/shocking way |
| Skulk | to lurk, move in a sinister manner - verb |
| Emissary | noun - a person or agent sent on a specific mission |
| Placid | adj - tranquil, calm, undisturbed |
| Disdain | noun - to regard or to treat as unworthy or beneath one;s dignity; to look down upon verb |
| Somnambulist | noun - a sleepwalker, one who walks in his/her sleep |
| Lugubrious | adj - very sad or mournful in a way that seems ridiculous |
| Rapacity | noun - taking by force, plundering, greedy, grasping, voracious |
| Prevaricate | verb - to evade the truth, to equivocate, to lie |
| Configuration | noun - a big, destructive fire |
| Gesticulate | verb - to make or use gestures especially with the hands or arms |
| Philanthropy | noun - a desire to help human-kind, especially by giving gifts to charitable or humanitarian institutions; benevolence; or a humanitarian institution or gift |
| rivet | noun - a metal bolt or pin with a head on one end used to fasten metal plates together |
| Spectral | adj - having the nature of a phantom, ghost, or specter, a ghostd |
| Inextricable | adj - that which cannot be disentangled or untied |
| Sagacious | adj - wise or foreseeing to perceive acutely, sage like |
| Alacrity | noun - eager readiness, eager, willingness |
| Montebank | noun - charleton: a person who mounts a bank or platform and sold quack medicines; a quack |
| Foliage | noun - leaves, as in a plant or tree; mass of leaves |
| Cipher | noun - the symbol 0 = indicating the value zero a secret system of writing; a code7ygvc xz |
| Perdition | noun - Hell, eternal domination |
| Languid | adj - without vigor vitality, sluggish, slow |
| Harlequin | noun - a traditional comic character in pantomime who wears a mask; tights of many colors - a clown, bafoon |
| evanescent | adj - tending to pass away quickly or fade from sight like mist or smoke |
| fecund | adj - fertile, productive |
| incantation | noun - the chanting of words believed to cast a spell or to form magic |
| abscond | verb - to run away hastily and secretly |
| ebb | verb - the flow of water back toward the sea as the tide falls |
| inquity | noun - wickedness |
| lascivious | adj - exhibiting lustfulness |
| obsequious | adj - to comply with |
| vivacious | adj - lively |
| consecrate | declare scared |
| corrigable | improved |
| egregious | adj - remarkably bad, outstanding for negative qualities |
| cuckold | noun - a man whose wife has commited adultery |
| edify | verb - to enlighten |
| upbraid | verb - to rebuke severley, to scold |
| castigation | noun - the act of punishing by public critisim |
| nequite | verb - to make a return (love ) |
| abhor | verb - to detest, to shrink away from in disgust |
| haply | adv - by chance or acident |
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