WW Chapter 3

Ambidextrous

Able to use both hands with equal ease.

Blatant

Offensively obvious

Cremate

Burn to ashes

Discursive

Rambling

Expound

State in detail

Grueling

Severely demanding

Idiom

Phrase not meant literally; style of speaking

Impious

Lacking reverence

Infidelity

Lack of faithfulness

Interpolate

insert

Literate

educated; able to read and write

Minion

Faithful follower

Proclivity

Inclination

Rebut

Oppose by argument

Sinecure

Easy, well-paying job

Tariff

Tax on imports; Scale of charges

Ambivalence

Simultaneous conflicting feelings

choler

anger

Curfew

Time to be off the streets

Dismantle

Take apart; remove the fittings

Fathoms

Units of depth; understand thoroughly

Hemp

Plant fibres used in rope

Imperative

Absolutely necessary; used for commands

Incapacitate

Disable

Innovation

Introduction of something new

Inveterate

Habitual

Magnitude

greatness

Octagon

eight-sided figure

Progenitors

ancestors;forerunner

Resilient

springy; able to recover quickly

Stamina

Staying power

Temperate

Neither very hot nor very cold; moderate

Wayward

Willful; changeable

Autopsy

Examination to determine the cause of death

Compunction

Remorse

Debut

First appearance

Expository

Explanatory

Glutinous

Sticky

Homily

Lecture on a moral theme

Imperial

By an emperor; small, pointed beard; majestic

Infatuated

Foolishly in love

Instill

Impart; introduce drop by drop

Irrational

Not governed by reason

Marauder

Attacker

Overwrought

Suffering from nervous strain; too elaborate

Quandary

State of perplexity

Reticent

Disinclined to speak

Sterilize

Make free from germs; make incapable of reproduction

Unwitting

Unaware; not intended