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Words 08
- jollification:
merrymaking; revelry.
- deus
ex machina: an agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently
insoluble difficulty.
- bellwether:
a leader or leading indicator.
- ostentation:
excessive or pretentious display.
- camarilla:
a group of secret and often scheming advisers.
- importunate:
troublesomely urgent.
- woebegone:
woeful; also, run-down.
- voluble:
characterized by a ready flow of speech.
- afflatus:
a divine inspiration.
- pugnacious:
combative; quarrelsome.
- caesura:
a break or pause in a line of verse; also, any
break or pause.
- salubrious:
healthful.
- abulia:
loss or impairment of the ability to act or to make decisions.
- pin
money: money for incidental expenses; also, a
trivial sum.
- miasma:
a thick vaporous atmosphere, often noxious.
- objurgate:
to scold or rebuke sharply.
- roister:
to revel; to carouse.
- inveigle:
to persuade or obtain by ingenuity or flattery.
- portent:
a sign or omen.
- lambaste:
to scold sharply; also, to beat.
- chimera:
a mental fabrication.
- lionize:
to treat or regard as an object great interest or importance.
- ubiquitous:
being everywhere.
- winsome:
light-hearted.
- epigone:
an inferior imitator.
- confluence:
a flowing or coming together.
- posit:
to postulate; also, to suggest.
- maelstrom:
a large, powerful whirlpool; also, a violent,
disordered, or turbulent state of affairs.
- gimcrack:
a showy but useless or worthless object.
- lenity:
the state or quality of being lenient.