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1)Insensate \(ˌ)in-ˈsen-ˌsāt, -sət\ (adj.)
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: lacking sense or understanding; also : foolish
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: lacking animate awareness or sensation
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: lacking humane feeling : brutal
Men also are those brutal soldiers, alike stupidly ready, at the word of command, to drive the nail through quivering flesh or insensate wood.
2)Sherbet \ˈshər-bət\ (n.)
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: a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice
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: an ice with milk, egg white, or gelatin added
"One person said it looks like a big lime sherbet ice cream cone!"
3)Beatific \ˌbē-ə-ˈti-fik\ (adj.)
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: of, possessing, or imparting beatitude
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: having a blissful appearance <a beatific smile>
She dozed at last, her face serene and beatific.
4)Bemuse \bi-ˈmyüz, bē-\ (transitive verb )
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: to cause to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement <seems truly bemused that people beyond his circle in Seattle would be interested in his ruminations — Ruth B. Smith>
They were marching in the middle of the street, chanting and singing and disrupting traffic while countless New Yorkers looked on, some bemused, others applauding.
5)Microcosm \ˈmī-krə-ˌkä-zəm\ (n.)
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: a little world; especially : the human race or human nature seen as an epitome of the world or the universe
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: a community or other unity that is an epitome of a larger unity
The building, he said, is "a microcosm of what Shanghai was all about."
6)Factitious \fak-ˈti-shəs\ (adj.)
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: produced by humans rather than by natural forces
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a : formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional standard
b : produced by special effort : sham <created a factitious demand by spreading rumors of shortage>
Indeed, the Chinese make a factitious cheese out of peas, which it is difficult to discriminate from the article of animal origin.
7)Gestate \ˈjes-ˌtāt\ (v.)
transitive verb
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: to carry in the uterus during pregnancy
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: to conceive and gradually develop in the mind
intransitive verb
: to be in the process of gestation
Mr. Lucas’s most recent project, still gestating, is a collaboration with Cuban musicians.
8)Traduce \trə-ˈdüs, -ˈdyüs\ (transitive verb )
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: to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation
For Grover Cleveland there were no longer enemies to traduce and vilify.
9)Sextant \ˈseks-tənt\ (n.)
1.a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant
For example, a sextant could be used to sight the sun at high noon in order to determine one’s latitude.
10)Coiffure \kwä-ˈfyu̇r\ (n.)
1.the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)
They sat down, and Saint-Clair noticed his friend's coiffure; a single rose was in her hair.
11)Malleable \ˈma-lē-ə-bəl, ˈmal-yə-bəl, ˈma-lə-bəl\ (adj.)
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: capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers
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a : capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences
b : having a capacity for adaptive change
“The Americans are seen as naïve malleable tools in the hands of the Brits.”
12)Rococo \rə-ˈkō-(ˌ)kō, rō-kə-ˈkō\ (n.)
1.having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation
The upper part of the case is decorated with elaborately carved and gilt rococo motifs.
13)Fructify \ˈfrək-tə-ˌfī, ˈfru̇k-\ (v.)
intransitive verb
: to bear fruit <its seeds shall fructify — Amy Lowell> <no partnership can fructify without candor on both sides — D. M. Ogilvy>
transitive verb
: to make fruitful or productive
Thence they grow, expand, fructify, and the result is Progress.
14)Nihilist \ˈnī-(h)ə-ˌli-zəm, ˈnē-\ (n.)
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a : a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
b : a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
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a : a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility
b capitalized : the program of a 19th century Russian party advocating revolutionary reform and using terrorism and assassination
“He’s a loner nihilist who believes in nothing,” Mr. Lu said.
15)Ellipsis \i-ˈlip-səs, e-\ (n.)
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a : the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
b : a sudden leap from one topic to another
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: marks or a mark (as …) indicating an omission (as of words) or a pause
He speaks in ellipses, often leaving sentences hanging, and fiddles apologetically with his BlackBerry.
16)Accolade \ˈa-kə-ˌlād, -ˌläd\ (n.)
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a : a ceremonial embrace
b : a ceremony or salute conferring knighthood
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: a brace or a line used in music to join two or more staffs carrying simultaneous parts
The Nobel Prize, considered one of the highest accolades in literature, is given only to living writers.
17)Codicil \ˈkä-də-səl, -ˌsil\ (n.)
1.a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will
The codicil to her will, which she had spoken of with so much composure, left three hundred pounds to Stella and me.
18)Roil \ˈrȯi(-ə)l, vt 2 is also ˈrī(-ə)l\ (v.)
transitive verb
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: rile 1
intransitive verb
: to move turbulently : be in a state of turbulence or agitation <conflicting emotions roiling inside her>
Like thousands of fellow students, he was roiled with emotions, struggling to come to grips with an inescapable reality.
19)Grandiloquent \gran-ˈdi-lə-kwən(t)s\ (n.)
1.lofty in style
A large part of his duties will be to strut about on the stage, and mouth more or less unintelligible sentences in a grandiloquent tone.
20)Inconsequential \(ˌ)in-ˌkän(t)-sə-ˈkwen(t)-shəl\(adj.)
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: of no significance : unimportant
But as the months went by, Mr. Kimura had an unexpected epiphany: His business, which he thought was inconsequential, mattered to a lot of people.
21)Effervescence \ˌe-fər-ˈves\ (intransitive verb)
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: to bubble, hiss, and foam as gas escapes
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: to show liveliness or exhilaration
Both were in the very sparkle and effervescence of that fanciful glee which bubbles up from the golden, untried fountains of early childhood.
22)Stultify \ˈstəl-tə-ˌfī\ ( transitive verb )
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archaic : to allege or prove to be of unsound mind and hence not responsible
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: to cause to appear or be stupid, foolish, or absurdly illogical
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a : to impair, invalidate, or make ineffective : negate
b : to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on
Far from being engines of economic growth, Egypt's leading cities are stultified.
23)Tureen \tə-ˈrēn, tyu̇-\ (n.)
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: a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (as soup) are served
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: casserole 1
Soups are presented in big tureens and can be quite good.
24)Pellucid \pə-ˈlü-səd\ (adj.)
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: admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion <a pellucid stream>
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: reflecting light evenly from all surfaces
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: easy to understand
Caribou Island is a scant 300 pages, and written in prose as pellucid as the rivers he used to fish as a boy.
25)Euphony \ˈyü-fə-nē\ (n.)
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: pleasing or sweet sound; especially : the acoustic effect produced by words so formed or combined as to please the ear
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: a harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound
It depends somewhat on usage and on euphony or agreeableness of sound.
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