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Words 08
- Zeitgeist:
the spirit of the time.
- faineant:
doing nothing; idle; also, a do-nothing.
- arcanum:
a secret; a mystery.
- obdurate:
hardened in feelings or in wrongdoing; unyielding.
- lacuna:
a blank space; a missing part.
- friable:
easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
- scrabble:
to scrape or scratch with the hands or feet.
- mimetic:
imitative.
- pertinacious:
holding obstinately to a belief, purpose or design; also,
stubbornly persistent.
- remonstrate:
to present and urge reasons in opposition.
- imprimatur:
approval or sanction.
- raillery:
good-humored banter or teasing repartee.
- supplicate:
to make a humble and earnest petition.
- primogeniture:
the state of being the firstborn; also, an
exclusive right of inheritance that belongs to the eldest son.
- inculcate:
to teach and impress by frequent repetition or instruction.
- nonagenarian:
someone whose age is in the nineties.
- upbraid:
to scold or criticize harshly.
- stoic:
indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; also,
one who is stoic.
- quietus:
final acquittance, as from debt; also, rest;
death.
- adventitious:
added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
- callow:
immature.
- permeate:
to spread or diffuse through.
- effusive:
excessively demonstrative.
- nolens
volens: whether unwilling or willing.
- disheveled:
in loose disorder; disarranged.
- caterwaul:
to make a harsh cry or screech.
- indelible:
incapable of being removed or erased.
- neophyte:
a novice.
- sylvan:
pertaining to woods or forests.
- canorous:
melodious; musical.
- irascible:
easily provoked to anger