primary week 2: 100-200

Consensus

General agreement

Constraint

A limitation or restriction

Contend

To struggle to surmount a difficulty

Contentious

Causing an argument

Contract

A written agreement

Contrite

Feeling remorse or guilt

Converge

To meet at a point

Conviction

A formal declaration of guilt

Corroborate

To confirm or give support to

Credulity

A tendency to be too ready to believe

Criterion

A principle or standard

Cryptic

Having a mysterious meaning

Culpable

Deserving blame

Cursory

Hasty and therefore not thorough

Curtail

To reduce in extent or quantity

Debilitate

To make someone weak/infirm

Debunk

To expose the falseness of a myth

Decorum

Behavior in keeping with good taste

Deference

Polite submission and respect

Degradation

The process of wearing down

Delineate

To describe or portray precisely

Denounce

To publicly declare to be wrong

Deplore

To feel or express strong disapproval

Depravity

Moral corruption; wickedness

Deprecate

To express disapproval of

Deride

To express contempt for; ridicule

Derivative

Imitative of another's work

Desiccate

To remove moisture from

Detachment

The state of being objective

Deterrent

A thing that discourages action

Deviate

To depart from an established course

Devoid

Entirely lacking or free from

Didactic

Intended to teach

Diffuse

To spread over a wide area

Digression

A temporary departure from the topic

Diligence

Careful and persistent work

Diminution

A reduction in size or importance

Discerning

Having good judgment

Disclose

To make secret information known

Discordant

Disagreeing or incongruous

Discrepancy

A lack of compatibility/similarity

Discriminating

Showing good judgment/taste

Discursive

Digressing from subject to subject

Disdain

Feeling that someone is unworthy

Disinterested

Not influenced by considerations

Dismissive

Feeling that something is unworthy

Disparage

To regard as being of little worth

Disparity

A great difference

Dispassionate

Not influenced by strong emotion

Dispel

To make a doubt or feeling disappear

Disputatious

Fond of heated argument

Disseminate

To spread something widely

Dissent

To hold non-standard opinions

Dissipate

To disappear or cause to disappear

Divergent

Tending to be different/develop apart

Doctrine

A belief or set of beliefs

Dogmatic

Laying down principles as true

Dormant

Temporarily inactive

Duplicity

Deceitfulness; double-dealing

Eclectic

Deriving ideas from a wide range

Efficacy

The ability to produce a result

Effrontery

Insolent or impertinent behavior

Elaborate

Involving many details

Elated

Ecstatically happy

Elegy

A poem of serious reflection

Elicit

To evoke or draw out a response

Eloquence

Fluent or persuasive speaking

Elucidate

To make something clear

Elusive

Difficult to find

Embellish

To make more attractive

Eminent

Famous and respected

Empathetic

Showing an ability to understand

Empirical

Based on observation/experience

Emulate

To match or surpass a person

Endorse

To declare one's public support

Enigma

A person/thing that is mysterious

Enmity

Being actively opposed or hostile

Ephemeral

Lasting for a very short time

Equivocal

Open to more than one interpretation

Erroneous

Wrong; incorrect

Erudite

Having or showing great knowledge

Esoteric

Intended for a small audience

Eulogy

A speech that praises someone

Euphemism

A mild or indirect word substitution

Exacerbate

To make a problem worse

Exalt

To hold someone in high regard

Exasperate

To irritate intensely

Exclusionary

Seeking to exclude

Exemplary

Serving as a desirable model

Exhaustive

Fully comprehensive

Exhilarating

Making one feel very happy

Exonerate

To absolve from blame

Expedient

Convenient and practical

Expedite

To make a process happen faster

Exploit

To make full use of a resource

Expository

Intended to explain or describe

Extant

Still in existence

Extenuating

Making guilt seem less serious

Extol

To praise enthusiastically

Extraneous

Irrelevant to the subject