Category : Science and Education
Archive   : POLYGLOT.ZIP
Filename : POLY001.DIC

ostensible
avowed; professed apparent

venial
excusable, capable of being forgiven

platonic
a spiritual comradeship of love, idealistic

utilitarian
useful, satisfying human wants

vapid
empty, insipid, spiritless

hiatus
gap, break with a part missing

scaerdotal
pertaining to priests or priesthood

megalomania
delusion of grandeur from mental disorder

orthodox
sound in opinion or doctrine, correct, approved

vicarious
suffered or enjoyed by one person on behalf of another

vociferous
crying out noisily, clamorous

wizened
dried, shriviled

heinous
hateful, bad, outrageous

roseate
rosy, bright, promising

henchman
followers, sometimes unscrupulous

hirsute
hairy, havong lots of hair, shaggy

mendacious
dishonest, not telling truth

veracity
truthfulness, honesty

renaissance
rebirth, a new birth or revival

respectively
as relating to each other, each in order

resilience
elasticity, rebound

orthopedics
science dealing with prevention or correction of deformitites
in the skeletal system
abrogated
called off, annulled, nullified

viscosity
thickness, quality of being sticky

plausible
seemingly true, reasonable, trustworthy

ruminate
to ponder over in the mind

utopian
having the nature of, or inclined to draw up schemes for a utopia;
idealistic; visionary
oscillation
a swinging back and forth

aborigines
earliest known inhabitants of a country

potpourri
mixture, medley, miscellany

mayhem
maiming a person, disfiguring act

plagarism
steal from another's writing, copying

winced
shrank, drew back, flinched

venomous
poisonous, deadly

hedonism
belief that pleasure is chief good in life

wanton
reckless about the feeling of others, unrestrained

respite
delay or postponement, intermission of labor

sagacious
wise, knowing, of sound judgement, respected

polemical
involving controversy, disputing

histrionic
of or pertaining to stage and acting

remunerate
to pay for service, reward, recompense

welter
a tossing and tumbling

winch
machine to turn or strain something

blithe
joyous, gay, merry

sacrilege
desecrating that which is sacred, profaning something

pensive
thoughtful, serious

peccadillo
petty fault, trifle, silliness

rustic
pertaining to the country

poignant
piercing, keen, distressing to feelings

bourgeois
belonging to the middle rank in society

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poignant
piercing, keen, distressing to feelings

bourgeois
belonging to the mid