Stems List 29-30

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colloquy

conversation

viable

able to live

synopsis

summary

terra firma

solid ground

sanction

authorize

Russophobe

one who fears Russia

prognosis

medical forecast

polychrome

many-colored

philanthropy

love of mankind

perspicacity

insight

mobocracy

mob rule

gerontocracy

government of the old

magniloquence

great eloquence

kleptomaniac

pathological thief

joie de vivre

joy of living

in loco parentis

in place of parents

mundane

worldly

synthesis

combination

unequivocal

direct

nihilism

belief in nothing

audiophile

stereo buff

entomology

insect zoology

omnifarious

of all kinds

invidious

causing envy

deduction

reasoning down from principles

induction

factual reasoning

diction

word choice

disingenuous

insincere

nondescript

of no category

chronicle

a history

panegyric

elaborate eulogy

magnum opus

great work

comport

behave

expeditiously

rapidly

carnage

butchery

supercilious

scornful

emissary

messenger

moribund

dying

hagiocracy

government of saints

disconsolate

inconsolable

fractious

unruly

prolific

productive

primeval

of the first ages

fidelity

faithfulness

antediluvian

from before the Flood

insurgence

uprising

renovate

restore

decadent

downfallen

inexorable

inescapable

improvident

without foresight