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Terms | Definitions |
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 capacious | (adj.) very spacious (The workers delighted in their new ***** office space |
| enigmatic | (adj.) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood, |
| succor | assistance in time of difficulty, (n) help in time of distress (v) to give aid and comfort in time of distress |
| adjudge | to decree or decide by law; to pass sentence, To determine based upon law, v. to award or bestow by formal decision, to award or bestow by formal decision; To determine or decide by judicial procedure; adjudicate. |
| avidity | a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something, n. eagerness, enthusiasm, desirousness, 1 : the quality or state of being avid: a : keen eagerness b : consuming greed |
| solicitude | the state of being concerned and anxious; attentive care and protectiveness, noun, an attitude expressing excessive attentiveness: to show great **** about his wife's health. |
| propagate | v. develop, multiply, broadcasted, publicized, spread, Transmission from one individual to another (usually multiple incubation periods, transmitted or spread, to reproduce, to create |
| audacious | invulnerable to fear or intimidation, (adj.) excessively bold (The security guard was shocked by the fan's *** attempt to offer him a bribe.) |
| dandy | a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance, a man whose style of dress is ostentatiously elegant or fashionable, a man who pays excessvie attention to his appearance |
| leitmotif | a dominant and recurring theme., repetition of a single action, phrase or idea by a character until it becomes a trademark identification. it is German for "leading theme.", "Leading motive", or basic recurring theme, representing a person, object or iea, commonly used in Wagner's operas. |
| piquant | with strong spices, pungnant, stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative, pleasantly tart-tasting; spicy; pleasantly stimulating; Ex. **** situation when my old enemy asked for my help |
| rakish | jaunty; stylish; sporty; morally corrupt; dissolute; Ex. He wore his hat at a **** and jaunty angle., adj. 1.marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners 2. jaunty, natty, raffish, dapper, spiffy, spruce, dashing, snappy 2.marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness: raffish |
| impetuous | characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation, characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate, inclined to act without thinking, suddenly and forcefully energetic or emotional, impulsive and passionate |
| sepulchral | gruesomely indicative of death or the dead, (adj.) funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal |
| sepulchre | a tomb, grave, or burial place, a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried |
| exfoliate | To shed or eliminate something as of scales from the surface of the body or loss of teeth from the jaws. |
| heresies | beliefs said to be contrary to official church teachings, any opinions/doctrines at variance with the established or orthodox position; beliefs that reject the orthodox tenets of a religion |
| leavened | literally, "lightened" by yeast cells, which digest some carbohydrate components of the dough and leave behind bubbles of gas that make the bread rise. |
| parlous | full of danger or risk, perilous, a rather self-conscious literary word, which appears to be only a tongue-in-cheek substitute for perilous |
| proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production, Class of working people without access to producing property; typically manufacturing workers, paid laborers in agricultural economy, or urban poor; in Europe, product of economic changes of 16th and 17th centuries |
| fealty | allegiance to a government, a superior, or to persons or things in general, Before leaving for the world champs, the athletes participated in a ceremony of _ to their country. |
| insouciance | the quality of being indifferent; lack of care or concern;indifference., nonchalance, indifference; lack of care or concern; relaxed I admired his youthful **** . |
| fiduciary | relating to the governing of property or estate on behalf of others, a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another |
| quiddity | the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other, the real nature of a thing, the essence, a hairsplitting distinction |
| marx | founder of modern communism |
| marxism | the political, economic, and social principles espoused by 19th century economist Karl Marx; he viewed the struggle of workers as a progression of historical forces that would proceed from a class struggle of the proletariat (workers) exploited by capitalists (business owners), to a socialist "dictatorship of the proletariat," to, finally, a classless society - Communism.. that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded, |
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