Formal Words, Part 1

Luther Bough
Mostly Greek/Latin root based words.
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  1. aegis
    armor plate that protects the chest
  2. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  3. concurrent
    occurring or operating at the same time
  4. contrarian
    an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
  5. contravention
    coming into conflict with
  6. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  7. debase
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  8. deflect
    turn from a straight course or fixed direction
  9. dejection
    a state of melancholy depression
  10. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  11. distemper
    any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
  12. ethos
    the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
  13. expurgate
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  14. genuflect
    bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
  15. impediment
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
  16. inflection
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  17. intemperate
    excessive in behavior
  18. pedestrian
    a person who travels by foot
  19. pedigree
    the ancestry or lineage of an individual
  20. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  21. precursor
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  22. predispose
    make susceptible
  23. purgative
    strongly laxative
  24. purgatory
    a temporary state of the dead in Roman Catholic theology
  25. purge
    rid of impurities
  26. quadruped
    an animal especially a mammal having four limbs
  27. redundancy
    the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
  28. reflective
    capable of physically throwing back light or sound
  29. subliminal
    below the threshold of conscious perception
  30. subversion
    the act of overthrowing or destroying, as a government
Created on Sat Jun 04 03:37:23 EDT 2011 (updated Sat Jun 04 07:46:17 EDT 2011)

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