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Byrd's Practice Words 86 words

September 20, 2007 By Jim B.
Words from 1000 Most Important Words by Norman Schur that I need to master.

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  1. aficionado
    a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer
  2. arch
    (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
  3. artful
    not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
  4. artless
    simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
  5. bemused
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
  6. brickbat
    a fragment of brick used as a weapon
  7. cachet
    an indication of approved or superior status
  8. cipher
    a secret method of writing
  9. colloquy
    formal conversation
  10. craw
    a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
  11. declare
    state emphatically and authoritatively
  12. decry
    express strong disapproval of
  13. delectation
    a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
  14. denigrate
    charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  15. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  16. derogate
    cause to seem less serious; play down
  17. disaffection
    the feeling of being alienated from other people
  18. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  19. doughty
  20. elide
    leave or strike out
  21. emote
    give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role
  22. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  23. errant
    straying from the right course or from accepted standards
  24. expostulate
    reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
  25. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  26. felicitate
    express congratulations
  27. fey
    suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
  28. font
    bowl for baptismal water
  29. force majeure
    a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
  30. founder
    a person who founds or establishes some institution
  31. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  32. hie
    move fast
  33. imponderable
    difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
  34. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  35. ingenue
    an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
  36. inscrutable
    of an obscure nature
  37. interdict
    an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
  38. inviolate
    (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken
  39. issue
    some situation or event that is thought about
  40. keen
    intense or sharp
  41. ken
    range of what one can know or understand
  42. kite
    plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
  43. kitsch
    excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste
  44. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  45. licentious
    lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained
  46. limn
    make a portrait of
  47. logy
    stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
  48. Lothario
    a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women
  49. malfeasance
    wrongful conduct by a public official
  50. misfeasance
    doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
  51. nonfeasance
    a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do
  52. manque
    unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
  53. matriculate
    enroll as a student
  54. maw
    informal terms for the mouth
  55. miscreant
    a person without moral scruples
  56. obloquy
    a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
  57. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  58. ombudsman
    a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government
  59. ordure
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
  60. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  61. parlous
    fraught with danger
  62. patent
    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  63. plangent
    loud and resounding
  64. plaudits
    enthusiastic approval
  65. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  66. potter
    a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
  67. priapic
    resembling or being a phallus
  68. puckish
    naughtily or annoyingly playful
  69. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  70. raffish
    marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
  71. roue
    a dissolute man in fashionable society
  72. rake
    a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
  73. coloratura
    singing with florid ornamentation
  74. sapient
    acutely insightful and wise
  75. seamy
    morally degraded
  76. cringing
    totally submissive
  77. slew
    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  78. sop
    dip into liquid
  79. sublimate
    change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
  80. dauphin
    formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne
  81. traduce
    speak unfavorably about
  82. untenable
    (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified
  83. virago
    a noisy or scolding or domineering woman
  84. pox
    a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
  85. waspish
    very irritable
  86. yen
    the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen