Monday, September 9, 2013

Vocabulary: Fall List #3

accomplice: a person who helps another commit a crime.

annihilate: destroy utterly; obliterate.  

arbitrary: based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

brazen: bold and without shame.

catalyst: a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change.

exodus: a mass departure of people, esp. emigrants. 

facilitate: make (an action or process) easy or easier.

incorrigible: not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.

latent: existing but not yet developed or manifest.

militant: combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause, and typically favoring extreme, violent, or confrontational methods. 

morose: sullen and ill-tempered.

opaque: not able to be seen through; not transparent.

paramount: more important than anything else; supreme.

prattle: talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.

rebut: claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false.

reprimand: a rebuke, esp. an official one.

servitude: the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful.

slapdash: done too hurriedly and carelessly.

stagnant: having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.

succumb: fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force).

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