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a. last; coming at the end
b. farthest; extreme
c. greatest possible |
ultimate |
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to bring to an end; conclude
(INTRANS. VERB)
to come to an end |
terminate |
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| only superficially relevant or related |
tangential |
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one subject to the authority of another
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of a lower class or rank; inferior
(TRANS. VERB)
to put in a lower class or rank; make inferior |
subordinate |
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a. something that follows; continuation
b. a result or consequence
c. a literary work that, while complete in itself, continues an already existing narrative |
sequel |
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a. central or crucial to somehing; very important
b. pertaining to a pivot, the shaft about which a related part rotates or swings |
pivotal |
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a. to begin; originate; cause to begir
b. to admit into membership |
initiate |
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a. the basic or essential feature of something
b. a baffling or puzzling point that is difficult to explain |
crux |
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a. to approach the same oint from different directions; meet
b. to move toward a common conclusion or result |
converge |
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a. the condition of being withou a stop or interruption
b. an uninterrupted succession or flow |
continuity |
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a. one of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one's life, activities, or surroundings
b. a change or variation |
vicissitude |
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| a wild or unpredictable notion or action; odd fancy |
vagary |
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| the ability to make valuable discoveries by chance; luck |
serendipity |
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a. a peculiarity of behavior; mannerism; idiosyncrasy
b. an unpredictable or unaccountable shift in action |
quirk |
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| resulting from or seeming to result from divine will; fortunate; oportune |
providential |
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| presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious advantageous |
propitious |
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| a set of words spoken as a magic charm or to cast a magic spell |
incantation |
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| the belief that all events are determined in advance by fate and cannot be changed by human means |
fatalism |
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| characterized by or subject to sudden, unprdictable changes; fickle |
capricious |
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| an object worn to bring luck or to protect against evil or injury; charm |
amulet |
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a. spoken by or using the language spoken by the common people rather than literary, cultured, or learned people; vernacular
b. of or associated with the common people
c. lacking tatse or delicacy; coarse
d. conspicuous and excessive; pretentious |
vulgar |
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a. the ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence
b. a violation of good manners or good tatse
c. something out of the normal or proper order |
solecism |
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a. consisting of many groups speaking different languages
b. speaking or writing several languages
c. containing elements or material from different languages
(NOUN)
a. a person who knows several languages
b. a mixture of languages |
polyglot |
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a. a dialect other than the standard dialect of a language, especially a regional or uneducated form of speech
b. the distinctive language of a special group; jargon |
patois |
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| a particular manner or kind of speech |
parlance |
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| a newly made-up word, phrase, or expression |
neologism |
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| the study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature, and how it changes |
linguistics |
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| a person for whom something is or is thought to be named |
eponym |
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| a speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semivowel (such as y) contained in a single syllable |
diphthong |
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a name or title that distinguishes or identifies
cognomen, epithet |
apellation |
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wealthy, rich, or affluent
sumptuous, luxurious |
opulent |
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without definite form; shapeless
vague, undefined |
amorphous |
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highly susceptible to sexual stimulation
sensual, suggestive |
erotic |
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dead and putrefying flesh
corpse |
carrion |
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unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness
beneficence, benignancy, goodwill |
altruism |
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lasting only one day; short-lived
fleetin, evanescent, momentary, brief |
ephemeral |
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to crowd around; crowd in upon; surround
beset, pester, harass, harry, hound |
besiege |
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to deprive of strength, force, vigor
enfeeble, debilitate, sap, exhaust |
enervate |
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to put or set right, correct; amend
redress, reform, amend, correct, improve, revise |
rectify |
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having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm
fervid, passionate |
fervent |
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keenness of merital perception and understanding; discernment; penetration
shrewdness, acuity, astuteness, insight |
perspicacity |
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protection, support
patronage |
aegis |
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a rude, awkward, or ill-mannered person
lout, oaf, boob, churl, philistine, vulgarian |
boor |
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of low character, aims; of low grade or quality
degraded, dishonorable, lowly |
ignoble |
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producing or tending to produce faction; causing dissension
dissident seditious, divisive, contentious |
factious |
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