CHROMOSOME

A circular strand of DNA which contains DNA info

Churlish

vulger

circumlocation

Wordy or unnecessary language.

Circumnavigate

To go around

deciduous

Falling of or shedding foliage in the winter

Deleterious Having a harmful effect

Diffident

Shy or lacking self-confidents.

Enervate

Weaken or destroy

Enfranchise

Epiphany

A sudden and profound realization.

Equinox

When the sun crosses the equator, making the length of day and night roughly equal.

Euro A basic unit of European currency

Evanescent Vanishing like a vapor

Expurgate

To remove objectionable material

Facetious Humorous

Fatuous Foolish or silly

Feckless

Lacking purpose

fiduciary

Holding something in trust for someone else.

Filibuster

The use of long-speechmaking to obstruct legislation.

Gamete

A reproductive cell

Gauche

Lacking in social grace, awkward

gerrymander

To organize voting districts so that one party has an advantage over the other.

Hegemony The dominance or strong influence of one

group or nation over others

The dominance or strong influence of one group or nation over others

hemoglobin

The iron-containing pigment in red blood cells.

Homogeneous

Uniform in structure or composition

Hubris

Overbearing pride

impeach

To make an accusation against a person.

incognito

With your identity hidden

Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute.

inculcate

To impress something on the mind of someone through repetition.

interpolate

To insert between other elements or parts.

irony

The use of words to express something other than their meaning

jejune

Dull, not interesting

kinetic

Produced by motion

kowtow

To be servile

Laissez faire To not interfere with others

To not interfere with others

lexicon A vocabulary

A vocabulary

loquacious

Very talkative

lugubrious

Dismal or gloomy

metamorphosis

A dramatic change

moiety

A part, portion, or share

nihilism

The belief that all values are baseless: nothing is important or has worth

Nomenclature

a system of names used in art or science

nonsectarian Not related to a political or religious

group

Not related to a political or religious group

Omnipotent All-powerful

All-powerful

paradigm

Something that serves as a pattern or model.

plagiarize

To use and pass off others ideas as your own.

Precipitious Extremely steep like a precipice

Extremely steep like a precipice

quotidian

Commonplace or ordinary

recapitulate To repeat in a shorter form

To repeat in a shorter form

reparation

The acts of making amends from wrongdoing

sanguine Cheerfully optimistic

subjugate To conquer

supercilious Showing disdain (dislike)

tempestuous Characterized by violent changes in

emotion

totalitarian Imposing a government in which all

power rests with the political authority.

Unctuous Insincere earnestness or slippery

usurp To seize and hold by force, not legal

authority

vacuous Lacking intelligence

vehement Forceful or intense in expression

Vortex A spiral motion of fluid

winnow To separate the good from the bad.

wrought Put together/ created

xenophobe a person who dislikes that which is

foreign.

Foreshadowing Indication of what might happen next (as

in a story, play, etc)

flashbacks Breaks in the narrative which explore

earlier event.

Imply to indicate or suggest without being

explicitly stated

Infer to conclude or judge from evidence

Precarious Dangerous, unstable

Candid Honest, frank

refute To disprove or deny

obscure Unclear or clouded

pragmatic Practical

Connoisseur expert enough in a field to judge.

 clandestine Secret

raze To destroy

implacable Unforgiving, relentless

culpability liability to blame

Acrimony

Harshness, sharpness in words

inadvertant Accidental, uninentional

mitigate

To make milder, less severe

Lethargic Tired, weak

stoic Indifference to pleasure or pain.

cryptic

Mysterious, puzzling

laud

To praise

respite

A rest, pause, or break

stringent

Strict, harsh, severe

desecrate

To Profane a holy place

fortuitous

Happening by chance or luck

virtuoso An accomplished musician

Apathy Lack of emotion or interest

didactic instructive

Didactic

Instructive, educational

peremptory

Demanding and leaving no choice

extraneous Unnecessary or irrelevant

deride

To ridicule or make fun of

remorse Regret, sadness tinged with grief

efface

To erase or wipe out

esoteric

Understood by only a select few

vilify

To speak of someone as if they were a villain

acquiesce To agree finally or to go along with

something after a struggle.

depravity

Moral corruption

profuse

Generous or excessive

nemesis

An avenging agent, one who inflict punishment.

Callousness

Insensitivity; hardness in minds, feelings.

Commiseration

A feeling or expression of Sympathy

Intrinsically

In it’s nature; without outside encouragement

Brevity

Shortness in speech or writing.

Appease

To bring to a state of peace or quiet

Perplexed

Being puzzled or confused.

Brood

Thinking unhappily on a subject.

Discourse Verbal communication

flagging Weakening or falling off.

Tenement A building or set of buildings built to a

low standard.