Chapter Five
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jollynotataco94 on December 8, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acuity | sharpness, keeness, acuteness |
| delineate | to sketch, portray, dipict, picture, render |
| depraved | evil, corruption, perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt |
| enervate | to weaken, lessen, enfeeble, hamstring. impair, cripple, paralyze |
| esoteric | understood by a select few, inside joke, occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite |
| fecund | fruitful, fertile, productive, teeming, prolific |
| fiat | order, decree, edict, dictum edict, ukase |
| figment | creation, fancy, invention, fabrication of the mind, imagination |
| garner | glean, to acquire, to gather, collect, cull, accumulate, accrue |
| hallow | holy, sacred, sanctify, consecrate, honor, revere |
| idiosyncracy | a peculiarity eccentricity, quirk, mannerism, pet-peeve |
| ignominy | shame and disgrace, dishonor, humiliation, disrepute, odium |
| mundane | prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary, ordinary |
| nuance | shade, nicety, refinement, slight variation |
| overweening | conceited, presumptous, excessive, arrogant, unbridled, inflated |
| penchant | inclination, proclivity, propensity, predilection, skill |
| reputed | general belief, reputation, putative, reputable, supposed |
| sophistry | specious reasoning |
| sumptuous | lavish, munificient, opulent, splendid, costly, rich, magnificent |
| ubiquitous | omnipresent, pervasive, universal, existing everywhere |
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