Monday, April 18, 2011

Week 31

1. Anomaly (n) – an abnormality, irregularity
2. Arbiter (n) – a judge
3. Attenuated (adj) – decreased, weakened, thinned
4. Concomitant (adj) – attending, accompanying
5. Deleterious (adj) – harmful; bad; venomous
6. Dissent (v/n) –protest, disagree/disagreement
7. Efficacy (n) - effectiveness
8. Ferment (n/v) – agitation, turmoil, uproar
9. Fervid (adj) – enthusiastic, passionate, avid
10. Heresy (n) – lack of faith, dissent, disbelief
11. Incumbent (adj) – morally required; obligatory/ holding a position
12. Innocuous (adj) – mild, innocent, harmless
13. Lassitude (adj) – fatigue, weariness
14. Milieu (n) – setting, environment
15. Ostensible (adj) – seeming, pretended, outward
16. Propagate (v) – to multiply, spread, produce
17. Prudent (adj) – cautious, wise
18. Spurious (adj) – counterfeit, false, specious
19. Strident (adj) – rough, harsh, shrill
20. Surfeit (n) – excess, superabundance

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