Lang vocab

Apex

(n.), the uppermost point/tip/peak point

Bolster

Censorious

(Adj.) describes a person or remark that is severely critical, fault finding, or quick to blame

Enumerate

(V.), to specify one after another, to list

Indiscriminate

(adj.) without restraint or control; unselective, not marked by careful distinctions

Nihilist

(N.) Someone that has the view existence is useless, one who rejects all religious, moral, and traditional values, practices, and institutions

omnipotent

(Adj.), having virtually unlimited authority, the most power, unlimited power

Opine

(v.), to express opinions

Paramount

(adj.), more important than anything else, supreme

Postulate

(v.), to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary

Pragmatic

Precedent

(n.), an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances, something that serves as an example/standard for others in the future

Promulgate

(v.), to make an idea known to many people by open declaration, to widely proclaim something

Provocative

(adj.) tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying

qualitative

(adj.), information based on characteristics, attributes, or qualities rather than numerical measurement, based on quality

quantitative

(Adj.), relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality, based on quantity (think numbers)

refute

(v.), to prove wrong by argument or evidence, show to be false or erroneous, to deny and prove evidence or argument is false

Ramify

(v.), to split up into branches or constituent parts, to send forth branches or extensions, expand in a separate way

Renounce

(V.), to give up, refuse, or reign unusually by formal declaration, to deny formally

Reproach

(n.), an expression of rebuke or disapproval, the look or act of disapproval/disapproving.

sanctimonious

(adj.), hypocritically pious or devout, someone or something that possesses characteristics of being holy or godly ("holier-than-thou")

Satiate

(v.), to satisfy (a need, desire, etc.) fully or to excess

Scrupulous

(Adj.) diligent, thorough, extremely attentive to details, very detail-oriented and worried about doing something wrong

Squalid

(Adj.), marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty

Subordinate

(adj.) lower in rank or position, secondary; (n.) one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else; (v.) to put in a lower or secondary position

Surly

(adj.), menacing or threatening in appearance, aggressive

surmount

(v.), to prevail over, get to the top of or to stand at the top of, to overcome something

tactful

(adj.) skilled in handling difficult situations or people, polite, skilled at saying the right thing at the right time

ubiquitous

Underscore

(v.), to draw a line under, to make evident, to emphasize

undulate

(v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

Unilateral

(Adj.), pertaining to one side, one-sided

Unmitigated

(adj.), having no exceptions to restrictions, without restriction; total, absolute, or not softened in severity, not lessened

Viability

(N.) the chance something will be favorable, ability/capacity to live/exist

Warrant (not the version relating to legal stuff)

(V.), to declare or maintain with certainty, to justify

Indiscriminate

(adj.) without restraint or control; unselective, not marked by careful distinctions

Nihilist

(N.) Someone that has the view existence is useless, one who rejects all religious, moral, and traditional values, practices, and institutions

omnipotent

(Adj.), having virtually unlimited authority, the most power, unlimited power

Opine

(v.), to express opinions

Paramount

(adj.), more important than anything else, supreme

Postulate

(v.), to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary

Pragmatic

Precedent

(n.), an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances, something that serves as an example/standard for others in the future

Promulgate

(v.), to make an idea known to many people by open declaration, to widely proclaim something

Provocative

(adj.) tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying

qualitative

(adj.), information based on characteristics, attributes, or qualities rather than numerical measurement, based on quality

quantitative

(Adj.), relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality, based on quantity (think numbers)

refute

(v.), to prove wrong by argument or evidence, show to be false or erroneous, to deny and prove evidence or argument is false

Ramify

(v.), to split up into branches or constituent parts, to send forth branches or extensions, expand in a separate way

Renounce

(V.), to give up, refuse, or reign unusually by formal declaration, to deny formally

Reproach

(n.), an expression of rebuke or disapproval, the look or act of disapproval/disapproving.

sanctimonious

(adj.), hypocritically pious or devout, someone or something that possesses characteristics of being holy or godly ("holier-than-thou")

Satiate

(v.), to satisfy (a need, desire, etc.) fully or to excess

Scrupulous

(Adj.) diligent, thorough, extremely attentive to details, very detail-oriented and worried about doing something wrong

Squalid

(Adj.), marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty

Subordinate

(adj.) lower in rank or position, secondary; (n.) one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else; (v.) to put in a lower or secondary position

Surly

(adj.), menacing or threatening in appearance, aggressive

surmount

(v.), to prevail over, get to the top of or to stand at the top of, to overcome something

tactful

(adj.) skilled in handling difficult situations or people, polite, skilled at saying the right thing at the right time

ubiquitous

Underscore

(v.), to draw a line under, to make evident, to emphasize

undulate

(v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

Unilateral

(Adj.), pertaining to one side, one-sided

Unmitigated

(adj.), having no exceptions to restrictions, without restriction; total, absolute, or not softened in severity, not lessened

Viability

(N.) the chance something will be favorable, ability/capacity to live/exist

Warrant (not the version relating to legal stuff)

(V.), to declare or maintain with certainty, to justify