| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Ameliorate | to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming |
| Aplomb | poise, assurance, great self- confidence, perpendicularity |
| Bombastic | pompous or overblown in language, full of highsounding words intended to conceal lack of ideas |
| Callow | without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sophistacation and poise, without feathers |
| Drivel | saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose, foolish, aimless talk or thinking, nonsense, to let saliva flow from the mouth, to utter nonsense or childish twaddle, to waste or fritter away foolishly |
| Epitome | a summary, condensed account, an instance that represents a larger reality |
| Exhort | to urge strongly, advise earnestly |
| Ex Officio | by virtue of holding a certain office |
| Infringe | to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds |
| Ingratiate | to make onself agreeable and thus gain favor of acceptance by others |
| Interloper | one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder |
| Intrinsic | belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent, originating a bodily organ or part |
| Inveigh | to make a violent attack in words, express strong dissaproval |
| Lassitude | weariness of body and mind, lack of energy |
| Millennium | a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy |
| Occult | mysterious, magical, supernatural |
| Permeate | to spread through |
| Precipitate | to fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly |
| Stringent | strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling |
| Surmise | to think without certain supporting evidence |
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