| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Adjunct | something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxillary capacity (associate, addition, accessory) |
| Bellwether | the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or vioent undertaking; an indicator of trends (sym, ringleader, initiator, barometer) (ant, follower, imitator, emulator) |
| Caterwaul | to howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; a harsh or noisy cry; a racket (sym. whine) (ant. wail, screech) |
| Chimerical | absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible (sym. fanciful, visionary, quixoitic, pie-in-the-sky) (ant. realistic, down-to-earth, practicable) |
| Effete | lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date |
| Fait accompli | an accomplished an presumably irreversible deed; fact, or action (accomplished fact) |
| Hidebound | narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative (sym. intolerant, inflexible) (ant. open-minded, tolerant, lberal, porgressive) |
| Hierarchy | an system of things or people arranged or graded ons above another in order rank, wealth, class, etc (chain of command, pecking order) |
| liturgy | a religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship (ceremony, observance) |
| Mirage | something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion |
| Morass | a patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp' aconfusing situation in which one is entrapped; as in quicksand (sym. bog quamire) (ant. solid graound, bedrock, terra firma) |
| Noisome | offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious (sym. fetid, noxious, vile, loathsome) (ant. wholesome, pleasant, sweet-smelling) |
| Oblivious | forgettful; unaware (sym. insensible) (ant. aware, mindful, cognizant, alert) |
| Poltroon | a base coward (sym. craven, dastard, "chicken" (ant. hero, stalwart, gallant) |
| Proselyte | a convert; a disciple (sym. novice, neophyte) (ant. master, teacher, guide, guru) |
| Quasi | resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely (sym. kind of semi, as if) (ant. totally, completely, actually, in fact) |
| Railery | good-humored ridcule; teasing (banter, presiflage) |
| Ribald | irrevently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or incident in language (sym. bawdy, risque) (ant. seemly, proper, decorous) |
| Supine | lying flat on one's back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive (sym. prone, prostate, inert) (ant. upright, erect, perpendicular, vertical) |
| Vignette | a short description or sketch; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter (sym. thumbnail, sketch, anecdote) (ant. epic, full-lenght, treatment) |
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