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85 Terms

1

Colloquy

Conversation

2

Viable

able to live

3

SynopsisS

summary

4

Terra Firma

solid ground

5

Sanction

authorize

6

Russophobe

one who fears Russia

7

Prognosis

medical forecast

8

Polychrome

many-colored

9

Philanthropy

love of mankind

10

Perspicacity

insight

11

Mobocracy

mob rule

12

Gerontocracy

government of the old

13

Magniloquence

great eloquence

14

Kleptomaniac

pathological thief

15

Joie de vivre

joy of living

16

In loco parentis

in place of parents

17

Mundane

worldly

18

Synthesis

combination

19

Unequivocal

direct

20

Nihilism

belief in nothing

21

Audiophile

stereo buff

22

Entomology

insect zoology

23

Omnifarious

of all kinds

24

Invidious

causing envy

25

Deduction

reasoning down from principles

26

induction

factual reasoning

27

hagiocracy

government of the saints

28

diction

word choice

29

disconsolate

inconsolable

30

disingenuous

insincere

31

fractious

unruly

32

nondescript

of no category

33

prolific

productive

34

chronicle

a history

35

primeval

of the first ages

36

panegyric

elaborate eulogy

37

fidelity

faithfulness

38

magnum opus

great work

39

antediluvian

from before the Flood

40

comport

behave

41

insurgence

uprising

42

expeditiously

rapidly

43

renovate

restore

44

carnage

butchery

45

decadent

downfallen

46

supercilious

scornful

47

inexorable

inescapable

48

emissary

messenger

49

improvident

without foresight

50

moribund

dying

51

mal

bad

52

post

after

53

port

carry

54

dict

say

55

omni

all

56

lith

rock

57

bene

good

58

cred

believe

59

neo

new

60

uni

one

61

non

not

62

archy

government

63

inter

between

64

vid

look

65

mono

one

66

pond

weight

67

in

not

68

sci

know

69

phyte

plant

70

lat

side

71

malapropism

ludicrous misuse of a word

72

nonplussed

perplexed

73

postlude

concluding section

74

hierarchy

ranking

75

portly

stout

76

interdiction

prohibition

77

vide

see

78

omnibus

covering many things

79

monolithic

massive and uniform

80

imponderable

difficult to ponder

81

benediction

blessing

82

incredulous

not believing

83

omniscient

all-knowing

84

neophyte

beginner

85

unilateral

one-sided