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Word 06

 

  1. prevaricate: to depart from or evade the truth.

  2. ostracize: to banish or expel.

  3. fillip: a snap; also, a stimulus.

  4. apocryphal: of doubtful authority or authenticity.

  5. harangue: a speech addressed to a public assembly; also, a noisy or pompous speech.

  6. copse: a thicket of small trees.

  7. obfuscate: to darken or obscure.

  8. agrestic: pertaining to fields or the country.

  9. congeries: a collection; an aggregation.

  10. peripatetic: walking about or traveling from place to place.

  11. turgid: swollen, bloated; also, bombastic, pompous.

  12. idyll: a poem or prose work depicting rural or pastoral life; also, a carefree episode or experience.

  13. ab ovo: from the beginning.

  14. gauche: lacking social polish; tactless.

  15. inexorable: unyielding; relentless.

  16. putative: commonly thought or deemed; supposed.

  17. dotage: feebleness of mind due to old age.

  18. bootless: unavailing; useless.

  19. proclivity: a natural inclination.

  20. exacerbate: to aggravate; to make worse.

  21. subaltern: subordinate.

  22. mollify: to reduce in intensity; to soothe; to soften.

  23. trencherman: a hearty eater.

  24. avoirdupois: weight; heaviness.

  25. inclement: harsh; severe -- especially said of the weather.

  26. travail: painful, arduous work; also, agony, anguish.

  27. equivocate: to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear.

  28. redact: to edit.

  29. vapid: flat; dull; spiritless.

  30. galvanic: pertaining to a direct current of electricity; also, having the effect of an electric shock.

Dec 06