abjure
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

2.abrogate
revoke formally

3.abstemious
marked by temperance in indulgence

4.acumen
shrewdness shown by keen insight

5.antebellum
belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

6.auspicious
auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

7.belie
be in contradiction with

8.bellicose
having or showing a ready disposition to fight

9.bowdlerize
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

10.chicanery
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

11.chromosome
a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order

12.churlish
having a bad disposition; surly

13.circumlocution
an indirect way of expressing something

14.circumnavigate
travel around, either by plane or ship

15.deciduous
(of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season

16.deleterious
harmful to living things

17.diffident
showing modest reserve

18.enervate
weaken mentally or morally

19.enfranchise
grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude

20.epiphany
a divine manifestation

21.equinox
either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length

22.euro
the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

23.evanescent
tending to vanish like vapor

24.expurgate
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

25.facetious
cleverly amusing in tone

26.fatuous
devoid of intelligence

27.feckless
generally incompetent and ineffectual

28.fiduciary
relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another)

29.filibuster
(law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

30.gamete
a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

31.gauche
lacking social polish

32.gerrymander
divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

33.hegemony
the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others

34.hemoglobin
a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues

35.homogeneous
all of the same or similar kind or nature

36.hubris
overbearing pride or presumption

37.hypotenuse
the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle

38.impeach
bring an accusation against; level a charge against

39.incognito
without revealing one's identity

40.incontrovertible
impossible to deny or disprove

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