WWW list 29-32

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

hagiocracy

government of saints

diction

word choice

disconsolate

inconsolable

disingenuous

insincere

fractious

unruly

nondescript

of no category

prolific

productive

chronicle

a history

primeval

of the first ages

panegyric

elaborate eulogy

fidelity

faithfulness

magnum opus

great work

antediluvian

from before the Flood

comport

behave

insurgence

uprising

expeditiously

rapidly

renovate

restore

carnage

butchery

decadent

downfallen

supercilious

scornful

inexorable

inescapable

emissary

messenger

improvident

without foresight

moribund

dying

mal

bad

non

not

post

after

archy

government

port

carry

inter

between

vid

look

omni

all

mono

one

lith

rock

pond

weight

dict

say

bene

good

in

not

cred

believe

sci

know

neo

new

phyte

plant

uni

one

lat

side

malapropism

ludicrous misuse of a word

nonplussed

perplexed

postlude

concluding section

hierarchy

ranking

portly

stout

interdiction

prohibition

vide

see

ombibus

covering many things

monolithic

massive and uniform

imponderable

difficult to ponder

benediction

blessing

incredulous

not believing

omniscient

all knowing

neophyte

beginner

unilateral

one-sided

hypothecate

pledge as security

heterodox

unorthodox

paterfamilias

male head of family

putative

thought-to-be

aver

affirm or declare

megaton

force of a million tons of dynamite

sangfroid

cold-blooded composure

alter ego

second self

altercation

heated dispute

contravene

go against

confluence

a flowing together

circumlocution

talking in circles

soliloquy

speech to oneself

mollify

make soft

gregarious

sociable