DAS IST GROUP WORDS

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  1. a posteriori
    involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes
  2. a priori
    reasoned from a general principle to a necessary effect
  3. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  4. abrogate
    revoke formally
  5. ad hominem
    appealing to personal considerations rather than to reason
  6. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  7. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  8. anthropomorphic
    suggesting human features for animals or inanimate things
  9. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  10. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  11. apprehend
    anticipate with dread or anxiety
  12. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  13. bilious
    relating to a digestive juice secreted by the liver
  14. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  15. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
  16. choleric
    characterized by anger
  17. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  18. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
  19. conflate
    mix together different elements
  20. de facto
    existing, whether with lawful authority or not
  21. de jure
    by right; according to law
  22. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  23. defenestration
    the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
  24. demagogue
    a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions
  25. dialectic
    a contradiction of ideas that determines their interaction
  26. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  27. epistemology
    the philosophical theory of knowledge
  28. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  29. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  30. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  31. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  32. fiduciary
    relating to or of the nature of a legal trust
  33. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  34. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
  35. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  36. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  37. in loco parentis
    in place of the parents
  38. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  39. jingoism
    fanatical patriotism
  40. laconic
    brief and to the point
  41. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  42. Luddite
    any opponent of technological progress
  43. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  44. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  45. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  46. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  47. nadir
    the lowest point of anything
  48. nascent
    being born or beginning
  49. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
  50. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  51. nexus
    the means of connection between things linked in series
  52. non sequitur
    a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
  53. obviate
    do away with
  54. occidental
    denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the western hemisphere
  55. ontogeny
    the process of an individual organism growing organically
  56. ontology
    the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
  57. panoply
    a complete and impressive array
  58. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  59. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  60. pedagogy
    the profession of a teacher
  61. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  62. penultimate
    next to the last
  63. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  64. philistine
    a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
  65. phylogeny
    evolutionary development of a species or group of organisms
  66. plethora
    extreme excess
  67. polyglot
    a person who speaks more than one language
  68. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  69. proscribe
    command against
  70. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  71. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  72. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  73. recidivism
    habitual relapse into crime
  74. redoubtable
    inspiring fear
  75. replete
    filled to satisfaction with food or drink
  76. Schadenfreude
    delight in another person's misfortune
  77. solipsism
    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
  78. somnambulate
    walk in one's sleep
  79. specious
    plausible but false
  80. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  81. tabula rasa
    an opportunity to start over without prejudice
  82. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  83. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  84. tautology
    useless repetition
  85. teleology
    a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
  86. tractable
    easily managed
  87. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  88. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  89. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  90. vitriolic
    harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
  91. xenophobia
    a fear of foreigners or strangers
  92. Zeitgeist
    the spirit of the time
  93. zenith
    the highest point of something
  94. zero-sum game
    a game in which the total of all the gains and losses is zero
Created on Thu Feb 28 09:42:16 EST 2013 (updated Wed May 08 17:52:27 EDT 2013)

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