August 13 Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd

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August 13Licentious adj lascivious libertine,
lewd
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August 14Humanities n branches of knowledge
concerned with human beings and their culture
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August 15free verse n poetry without a regular
pattern of meter and rhyme, relying on other
elements for its structure
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August 16 misanthrope n a person who hates all
people
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August 17 homicide n the killing of one person
by another a person who kills another murder
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August 20virile adj having certain
characteristics associated with men manly
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August 21bodacious adj blatant remarkable
impressive
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August 22tone n an authors attitude toward
the audience or subject
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August 23autocrat n a ruler who has absolute
and unlimited power a despot
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August 24Automaton n a person who behaves in a
mechanical, routine manner a robot
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August 27autonomy n the condition of being
self-governing independence
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August 28egoism n valuing everything according
to ones personal interest conceit
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August 29genealogy n a record of descent from
ones ancestors the study of family records
lineage
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August 30genocide n the planned annihilation
of a racial, political, or cultural group
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August 31motif n a dominant idea in a work of
literature
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September 3genteel adj well-mannered refined
polite
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September 4remonstrate v to speak in protest
or disapproval
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September 4gentry n aristocratic or well-bred
people
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September 5heterogeneous adj having parts that
are unrelated or completely different incongruous
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September 6umbrage n extreme offense
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Sept. 7oxymoron n a self-contradictory
combination of words
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Sept 8engender v to give rise to to bring
into existence
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Sept. 9genesis n a beginning or origin
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Sept 10indigenous adj occurring in or
characterizing an area Native
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Sept 11altruism n concern for the welfare of
others
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Sept 12progenitor n a direct ancestor an
originator of a line of descent
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Sept. 13progeny n children or descendants
offspring
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Sept. 16matrix n the surroundings within which
something begins or develops
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Sept. 17matriculate v to register as a student
at a college or university
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Sept. 18apostrophe n a rhetorical device in
which an absent or imaginary person/abstraction
is directly addressed as though present
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Sept. 19avuncular adj like an uncle
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Sept. 20uxorious adj dominated by ones wife
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Sept. 23bigamy n marriage to two mates
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Sept. 24puerile adj childish immature
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Sept. 25pedagogue n a teacher
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Sept 26pedant n a person who pays excessive
attention to learning rules rahter that to
understanding
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September 27entity n something that has a real
or independent existence
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September 30parody n the imitation of a
serious piece of literature meant to ridicule the
work its style or the author
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Oct. 1 moribund adj about to die or end
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Oct. 2postmortem n an examination to determine
the cause of death an autopsy
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Oct. 8mortify v to shame
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Oct. 9innate adj possessed at birth inborn
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Oct. 10naive adj childlike unsophisticated
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Oct. 11 nascent adj emerging coming into
existence
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Oct. 14amicable adj friendly
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Oct. 15personification n a figure of speech
that gives nonhuman ideas, abstractions, or
objects human qualities
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Oct 16enamored adj in love with charmed by
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Oct. 17inimical adj harmful
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Oct. 18odious adj distasteful hateful
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Oct. 21 philander v to engage in casual love
affairs
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Oct. 22appease v to satisfy or relieve to calm
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Oct. 23 pacific adj serene peaceful
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Oct. 24antipathy n a hatred or dislike
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Oct. 25apathy n lack of feeling, energy, or
interest
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Oct. 28empathy n the ability to identify with
someone else and understand that persons
situation or feelings
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Oct. 29misogamy n hatred of marriage
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Oct. 30misogyny n hatred of women
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October 31synesthesia n describing one kind of
sensation in terms of another
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Nov. 1covet v to crave or desire, especially
something belonging to someone else
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Nov. 4 cupidity n greed avarice
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Nov. 5finagle v to trick, swindle, or cheat (a
person)
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Nov. 6implacable adj impossible to calm or
appease
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Nov. 7domicile n a home residence
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Nov. 8somnamblate v to walk while sleeping
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Nov. 11somnolent adj drowsy sleepy
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Nov. 12 ablution n washing of the body,
especially as a ritual purification
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Nov. 13deluge n a downpour a great flood
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Nov. 14divest v to take away something
belonging to someone to dispossess
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Nov. 15investiture n a ceremony in which a
person formally receives the authority and
symbols of an office
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Nov. 18depredation n destruction plunder
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Nov. 19 syntax n the arrangement of words
within a sentence
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Nov. 20precocious adj showing unusually early
development, especially mentally
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Nov. 21voracious adj extremely hungry greedy
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Nov. 22mellifluous adj sweet as honey
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December 2imbibe v to drink (especially
alcohol)
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Dec. 3potable adj safe to drink
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Dec. 4allude v to make an indirect reference
to
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Dec. 5elude v to avoid or escape from by
cunning to evade
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Dec. 6understatement n a figure of speech in
which the literal sense is far short of the
magnitude of the subject or circumstances
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Dec. 9recapitulation n the restatement of a
main idea
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Dec. 10cerebration n the action of thinking
thought
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Dec. 11facet n one of the many sides of a cut
stone or jewel
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Dec. 112effrontery n flippant or insulting
boldness audacity
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Dec. 13 supercilious adj haughty and aloof
disdainful