Wade Semester Exam

scion

child, descendant

indoctrinate

teach certain princlples

opulence

wealth, riches

obsequious

seeking favor, fawning

fulsome

excessive, insincere

lush

luxurious, elaborate

destitution

extreme poverty

ponder

consider carefully

supplication

earnest prayer

decadence

decay

penance

atonement for sin

ascetic

one who practices self-denial

desultory

occurring by chance, disconnected

disciple

follower

metamorphosis

change

bona fide

genuine

materialism

concern with possessions

nirvana

heavenly place

nurture

nourish

salvation

deliverance from ruin

juxtapose

to place side by side

plight

predicament, dangerous situation

covert

secret, hidden

cope

to be a match for, to be able to handle

incompability

quality of being mismated, lack of harmony

incapacitated

disabled, made unfit

fabricate

to lie, concoct

connubial

related to marriage

demur

to object

appellation

a name

escalation

an increase, intensification

indifference

lack of concern

potential

possible

cumulative

accumulated

recondite

secret, hidden, obscure

palliate

alleviate, relieve without curing

delude

to fool

prelude

introduction

chimerical

visionary, imaginary, fantastic

acknowledge

admit

analogous

comparable, similar

catastrophic

disastrous

compensatory

serving to pay back

decade

ten years

enunciate

to udder, to proclaim

gamut

range

heterogeneous

dissimilar

inordinate

excessive

introspective

looking into one's feelings

irascible

irritable

maladjusted

disturbed

mandate

authoritative command

mortality

death

neurotic

having a nervous disorder

neutralize

counteract

pedagogue

teacher

perpetuous

to cause to continue

perspacious

shrewd

phenomenom

unusual occurrence

susceptible

easily affected

anthropoligist

an expert in the study of the races, beliefs, customs, etc. of mankind

artifact

an object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occurs in nature

bizarre

odd, peculiar, strange, weird

fetish

an object that is thought to have magic powers

inanimate

lifeless

imperative

urgent, necessary, compulsive

imprudent

unwise, not careful

prohibition

the act of forbidding certain behavior

taboo

forbidden by custom or religion practice

taint

contamination, undesirable substance that spoils something

abhor

to detest, to despise; to utterly hate

absurd

ridiculous

bigot

a person who is intolerant of other people or ideas

contemptuous

expressing a feeling that something is worthless; looking down on someone or something

universal

present everywhere, widespread

vulnerable

capable of being injured

entreaty

appeal, plea

tradition

custom that has been handed down; long-standing practice

originate

begin arise

inviolable

safe

aegis

protection, sponsorship, shield

awesome

inspiring terror, weird

conflagration

great fire

congenial

agreeable, sympathetic

debris

ruins, fragments

deplorable

sad, pitiable

detriment

hurt, damage, injury

dispersed

broken up, scattered, spread

doddering

trembling, shaking with old age

eruption

bursting out

hoard

accumulate, save, store up

imbibe

to drink

initiate

set going, start

longevity

long duration of life

obliterate

wipe out, erase

puny

weak, unimportant

rue

regret

sage

wise man, philosopher

senile

infirm, weak as a result of old age

virile

manly, masterful