Acumen
Quickness and keenness of judgment or insight
Bellicose
Warlike or hostile in personality
Churlish
Boorish or vulgar; having a bad disposition; surly
Deleterious
Having a harmful effect; injurious
Epiphany
A Christian feast on Jan. 6 OR a revelation of meaning
Expurgate
To remove objectionable material from a book
Fiduciary
Holding something in trust for another; a trustee
Gerrymander
To divide into voting districts so as to give an unfair advantage to one party in elections
Hubris
Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance
Incontrovertible
Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
Irony
A difference between what is expected and what actually occurs
Laissez-faire
Economic policy that opposes government regulation; noninterference in the affairs of others
Metamorphosis
A change in appearance or character; a transformation
Nihilism
A philosophy that denies existence is real; nothing can be known for sure; no morals or values
Obsequious
Showing servile compliance; fawning
Oxidize
To combine with oxygen
Pecuniary
Of or relating to money; requiring payment of money
Polymer
Natural or synthetic compound consisting of repeated linked units
Recapitulate
To repeat in concise form
Sanguine
Cheerfully confident; optimistic; of the color of blood; red
Supercilious
Feeling or showing haughty disdain
Tempestuous
Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous; stormy
Usurp
To seize and hold by force and without legal authority; to take over or occupy without right
Winnow
To separate the outer hull from grain by means of a current of air; to examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad; sift
Ziggurat
A step pyramid; a temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
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