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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acronym | words formed from the first letters of several words |
| amortize | to get rid of, or kill |
| billingsgate | swear words |
| brogue | a thick irish accent |
| didactic | the need to instruct people |
| effete | exhausted of fertility |
| holocaust | complete destruction by fire |
| jargon | confused unintelligible language |
| obsequious | excessively willing to obey or overly servile |
| tawdry | showy, tasteless, cheap |
| vapid | dull, and unexciting |
| bucolic | pertaining to farm life |
| canard | assertions or implications that seem credible because of the way they are presented, but not true |
| curate | one who takes care of souls |
| genuflect | bending his knee in reverential respect to the altar and all that it signifies |
| grovel | to lie prone, to beg |
| mellifluous | sweet, pleasant to the ear |
| mollify | to appease or mitigate |
| monolithic | one massive undifferentiated whole |
| obelisk | foursided monolithic pillar |
| procrastinate | setting of to a different day |
| saturnine | sluggish, gloomy, or sullen |
| symposium | a conference |
| adumbrate | to outline faintly |
| emancipate | to take out of the hand, to set free |
| halcyon | calm peaceful happy |
| hyperbole | obvious exaggeration |
| lachrymal | anything that is sad, or melancholy |
| piquant | pleasantly tart, sharp, biting, pungent |
| pogrom | an organized massacre |
| poignant | painfully moving |
| polemic | the art of controversy |
| salubrious | healthful or beneficial |
| solecism | bad grammar |
| tautology | a redundancy, or needless repetition |
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